Man Wanted For Cantonment Homicide After Victim’s Body Found

March 8, 2026

The Escambia County Sheriff’s Office is searching for a homicide suspect in connection with the death of a 34-year-old man found dead in Cantonment.

Devaughn Kentrell Williamson is wanted in connection to a homicide that occurred on Wednesday, March 4 in the 100 block of Booker Lane, just north of Booker Street.

Deputies originally responded to Booker Lane after a report of “deadly missiles” and found blood and shell casings at the scene.

Deputies were working a missing persons case and developed Williamson as a suspect, which ultimately led to the discovery of the victim’s body.

Investigators believe the motive is drug related.

The case remains under investigation and further details have not been released.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Devaughn Kentrell Williamson is asked to contact the ECSO at (850) 436-9620 or Crime Stoppers at (850) 433-STOP.

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One Response to “Man Wanted For Cantonment Homicide After Victim’s Body Found”

  1. Riverrat on March 8th, 2026 9:59 am

    Prayers for the victim and their family. I wish the ecso would pay more attention to that area about the drugs they know that is a heavy populated drug running spot and they do nothing about it until it is too late. I dont live too far from there and just about every day or night you hear sirens and stories about drug related incidents but yet nothing is done. Why not set up some kind of sting operations and go in there and clean the place up? Ecso please clean up our community we are tired of the drugs, violence, and death. It would be nice to have some peace around here for once. One sting op and yall could silence the problems for quite a while, as long as the justice system doesn’t just throw them back out onto the street. Which we all know will happen but it is still a nice idea though j/s.





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