In the first quiet hours of July 5, 2025, 18-year-old woman Xzaria Randall was shot on Rover Road near 103rd Street on Jacksonville’s Westside, where a party had drawn a crowd. Officers responding around 1 a.m. found 18-year-old woman Xzaria Randall with multiple gunshot wounds to her torso; Jacksonville Fire and Rescue personnel pronounced 18-year-old woman Xzaria Randall dead at the scene.
Detectives said a fight had broken out among people at the gathering, and in the churn of that altercation, shots were fired that ended the night in violence.
In the hours and days that followed, homicide detectives processed evidence and interviewed witnesses to piece together the fragments of the confrontation. By July 8, 2025, they identified a suspect: 23-year-old Stephan Smith. The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office announced that 23-year-old Stephan Smith had been arrested on a warrant and booked into the John E. Goode Pretrial Detention Facility, facing a murder charge connected to the killing of 18-year-old woman Xzaria Randall.
Local reports detailed that 23-year-old Stephan Smith was held in Duval County jail with no bond as of July 8 and was charged with second-degree murder. Authorities said multiple people at the party were initially detained while investigators worked to clarify everyone’s role, a process that unfolded alongside the formal booking of 23-year-old Stephan Smith on the homicide charge.
The official account from the Sheriff’s Office and corroborating local coverage align on the essentials: a neighborhood party, a fight that escalated, gunfire, and the loss of 18-year-old woman Xzaria Randall, with a swift arrest that moved the case from the chaos of that early morning into the steady cadence of the courts.
