11/12/2025
"Jamaican Man" Initially Blamed for Mobile Home Fire turned Double Homicide
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New Details have emerged in the double murder at the mobile home park Friday on Flaxman Street in Escambia County.
The arrest report obtained from the Escambia Co. Sheriff's Office confirms there were four people inside the mobile home at the time of the fire.
We know a 7 and 9yr. old brother/sister were killed before the fire started.
Suspect John Walston is charged with the murders along with s*x assault, arson and animal cruelty.
The arrest report lists a third child was inside the mobile home, able to escape unscathed.
The child was interviewed shortly after the incident, where investigators state he told them a "Jamaican man" was standing in the doorway holding a 'flamethrower' or 'molotov cocktail'.
The child witness told detectives he and Walston chased the "Jamaican man" out of the home.
Shortly after leaving the USA burn unit in Mobile, Walston was detained in Escambia Co., he reportedly told investigators a similar story of an unidentified man in the home who commited the crimes.
The report lists several inconsistencies with the story of an intruder entering the home.
For example, the witness reportedly changed their story about where the fire started and where they saw this supposed Jamaican man.
In addition, one of the victims was found s*xually abused in Walston's bedroom.
The suspect, Walston, told investigators the man was in the home for only "8 seconds."
Investigators then began to question how a man could commit such heinous acts in less than ten seconds... or how Walston never heard them happen in his mobile home.
Walston replies that he's a "heavy sleeper."
It's unclear when, where and how the child witness and the suspect formed a very similar statement about a Jamaican man.
Sheriff Chip Simmons confirms ECSO believes that part of the story is a lie.
The report shows that Walston confessed to the crime after being left alone in a room with two photos of the deceased.
More on the story later.
