JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 A family-owned Jacksonville furniture store is now picking up the pieces after a car crashed into their business early Sunday morning.<\/p>\n
\u201cI looked through the store and I couldn\u2019t believe,\u201d said Fawzy Khalil, the store\u2019s owner.<\/p>\n
Fawzy Khalil said he came rushing to the Furniture Mattress Depot after a devastating call from a neighbor.<\/p>\n
Surveillance video captured the moment the vehicle hit the building. Then three people appear to jump out and take off running.<\/p>\n
The Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office said officers are working this as a hit-and-run and have not made any arrests yet.<\/p>\n
The impact shattered the front windows, leaving shards of glass everywhere.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <\/b><\/a><\/p>\n \u201cEverything is a big loss for me,\u201d said Khalil.<\/p>\n Khalil said that once the car caught on fire, it led to smoke and water damage, which destroyed several mattresses and furniture sets inside.<\/p>\n They\u2019ve had to throw out about 15-to- 20 pieces of merchandise.<\/p>\n But despite the thousands of dollars in damage, Khalil is grateful no one was hurt.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m glad they did this at night because if they did it in the day in the business, definitely some people would have got killed,\u201d Khalil said.<\/p>\n At this time, the owner is not sure when he will be able to reopen his doors for customers.<\/p>\n His biggest concern is getting the windows fixed.<\/p>\n If you would like to help them rebuild, here is the GoFundMe. <\/p>\n Fundraiser by Islam Khalil: Rebuild Fawzy\u2019s Family Furniture Store in Jacksonville<\/a><\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: <\/b>Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/b><\/a>]<\/b><\/p>\n [SIGN UP: <\/b>Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/b><\/a>] <\/b><\/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 family-owned Jacksonville furniture store is now picking up the pieces after a car crashed…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":301146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[12189,13826,5229,153125,153128,3188,723,153126,153127,12507,13819,7310,13040,124362,425,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-301145","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-action_news","9":"tag-alexis_clevinger","10":"tag-america","11":"tag-dunn_avenue","12":"tag-fawzi_khalil","13":"tag-fl","14":"tag-florida","15":"tag-furniture_masters_depot","16":"tag-furniture_mattress_depot","17":"tag-gofundme","18":"tag-jackson","19":"tag-jacksonville","20":"tag-jacksonville_sheriff","21":"tag-khalil","22":"tag-local","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-united-states-of-america","25":"tag-unitedstates","26":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","27":"tag-us","28":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115369468545437013","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301145","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=301145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}