JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The mother of an Uber driver shot and killed in what police are calling a gang-related double shooting in Moncrief says she just learned of the two recent arrests in the case.
"I'm just really upset," Bryant Grund's mother Heidi Doyle said.
Doyle says her son was in the wrong place at the wrong time. She says she is devastated after reading the reports and learning there was a $20,000 dollar payout to kill the passenger her son was driving. "It is just so frivolous."
31-year-old Bryant Grund, who was driving for Uber, and his passenger 19-year-old Antonio Tillie were shot to death in a car near Kylan Drive on October 6.
On the day of the shooting, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office was dispatched to 7440 Kylan Drive West for reported gunshots. When officers arrived, they located a Mini Cooper Clubvan that had crashed into a home.
Grund was found in the driver's seat and Tillie was in the backseat. Both were suffering from multiple gunshot wounds and were pronounced dead on the scene.
First Coast News learned Tillie was the target. The reports confirmed the shooting was gang-related.
"Bryant had no business being put in harm's way by picking up a passenger and delivering him to a destination that was going to bring him harm," Doyle said.
22-year-old Ju'Quan Mills is charged with two counts of second-degree murder and 23-year-old Diamond Harris is charged with accessory after the fact.
According to the report, Mills told detectives there was a $20,000 payment offered to whoever killed the target. Police say Harris used social media, voice calls, and text messages to communicate and "presumably lure the victim to her location." Through interviews investigators discovered the victim was going to the area to meet a woman and "they were possibly going to meet up for a date," the report states. Content on Harris’ phone shows Mills' was helping her with what to say to the victim.
"They are seeing things as murder as a slap on the hand as a way of life. The most atrocious thing that could happen to you is to take a life but they are labeling it as part of being a lifestyle. It's not okay," Doyle said.
Doyle says she grieves for Tillie’s family. "They also lost someone very valuable whether they were in a good state of mind or not because obviously he was in a bit of trouble, but I know that any loss is something that can be mourned."
Doyle says she is mourning the loss of her oldest son and struggles to understand why his life was taken.
"He still walks with us every moment of everyday but it's just not the same," Doyle said.
Police reports say a third suspect is known to law enforcement but has not been arrested. If you have any information about this case, call Crime Stoppers at 866-845-TIPS.