JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 The Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office is investigating a shooting turned SWAT situation at the Hollybrook Homes Apartments in Jacksonville\u2019s Lackawanna neighborhood.<\/p>\n
Action News Jax was on scene Thursday morning and heard loud bangs and SWAT over a loud speaker shouting demands to someone in the apartments. Authorities breached one apartment unit, however, an officer told Action News Jax Thursday morning that nobody was inside.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought some guy pulled up in that lot, blew out a tire or something,\u201d Roger Sides, a truck driver who parked overnight nearby and heard officers breach the apartment said. \u201cI get up and I see police and you guys out here and I\u2019m like, what the heck is going on?\u201d<\/p>\n
[DOWNLOAD: <\/b>Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/b><\/a>]<\/b><\/p>\n According to the Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office, the scene began at around 8:50 p.m. Wednesday night, when officers responded to the apartment complex on Kings Road and found a teenager shot in the chest.<\/p>\n Jacksonville Fire and Rescue responded and took the victim, in his late teens, to the hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.<\/p>\n The shooter \u2014 described as an older bald man wearing all black clothing \u2014 was caught on surveillance video running away from the apartments in an unknown direction.<\/p>\n \u201cSomebody said it was a young man killed and I hate it for him and his family and everybody else,\u201d Sides told Action News Jax Thursday morning. \u201cAnd I hated it had come to a point to where someone felt they had to do this.\u201d<\/p>\n Sides said the incident serves as yet another reminder of the need for compassion over violence.<\/p>\n \u201cLife is too short. I got great grandkids, six of them. And I\u2019d hate to think what\u2019s coming to them, or someone just like for a second to do something that\u2019s permanent, that you can\u2019t change,\u201d Sides reflected. \u201cToo much evil in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n Action News Jax was told as of 11:30 a.m. Thursday, the suspect had not yet been caught. <\/p>\n