JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 A man was shot and killed after police say he pulled out a gun and shot at an officer on Jacksonville\u2019s Westside on Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n
The officer put out a call of \u201cshots fired\u201d on his radio around 3:30 p.m., Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office Chief of Investigations Mike Paul said.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n The officer was at a \u201cstop station\u201d in the 1700 block of West Beaver Street near Stockton Street, Paul said.<\/p>\n JSO said<\/b><\/a> previously that stop stations are places in the community that offer officers \u201ca secure space to take a quick break before heading back out to protect and serve the community\u201d and \u201care not open to the public.\u201d<\/p>\n The officer was in his parked car, seated in his vehicle, Paul said. A man, later identified as 45-year-old Christopher Ford, approached the officer\u2019s vehicle.<\/p>\n Paul said the interaction between Ford and the officer was a short conversation. During this time, Ford pulled out a handgun and started walking backwards, Paul said.<\/p>\n The officer pulled out his gun and then the suspect fired his weapon, missed the officer, and hit the stop station, Paul said.<\/p>\n The officer fired his weapon and hit Ford, who was taken into custody and was given aid by the officer.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: <\/b>Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/b><\/a>]<\/b><\/p>\n Ford was taken to UF Health Jacksonville, where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n Paul said Ford was held under Florida\u2019s Baker Act in February and has no local criminal history.<\/p>\n Paul said the JSO Cold Case Unit will continue to investigate the shooting. The officer activated his body-worn camera, but since the interaction was so quick, it may not have captured the whole thing, Paul said.<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: <\/b>Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/b><\/a>]<\/b><\/p>\n This is the second officer-involved shooting the officer has been involved in and he is not being identified at this time due to Marsy\u2019s Law, Paul said.<\/p>\n The officer will be placed on administrative leave, which is standard JSO policy.<\/p>\n Paul said this is the 14th officer-involved shooting for JSO this year.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Click here<\/b><\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, <\/b>click here<\/b><\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and <\/b>click here<\/b><\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/b><\/p>\n Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 A man was shot and killed after police say he pulled out a gun and…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1009690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5136],"tags":[404308,5229,170394,404311,404312,3188,723,7310,8423,425,172829,404309,404310,206885,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,209738],"class_list":["post-1009689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-1700_block","tag-america","tag-baker_act","tag-christopher_ford","tag-f_o_r_d","tag-fl","tag-florida","tag-jacksonville","tag-jso","tag-local","tag-marcy","tag-mike_paul","tag-tresher","tag-uf_health","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-west_beaver_street"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117119307497638987","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1009689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1009690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1009689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1009689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}