Public Safety

Starke woman gets 100-year sentence in daycare shooting death of children’s father

Mindy Osteen, 34, pleaded guilty Wednesday to second-degree murder and additional felony charges for the July 2025 shooting death of Christopher Travis Jones outside Auntie Lili’s Daycare in Starke, where Jones was picking up the couple’s two children. A judge accepted the negotiated plea agreement, resulting in a 100-year prison sentence and closing the case without a trial. The victim’s family described themselves as traumatized by the killing.

Sources: WCJB TV20