JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Body-worn camera footage and hours of interrogation video are filling in critical details about what happened the day 21-year-old Justin Golden struck and killed his son, 8-month-old Pablo Golden, with a car, and whether Golden intended to hit his child.<\/p>\n
According to the interrogation video, the tragedy unfolded after an argument between Golden and the child\u2019s mother inside the car. <\/p>\n
Investigators said the mother got out of the car and left 8-month-old Pablo inside. Golden told detectives that\u2019s when he took the baby out of the car and sat him on the ground.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Body camera footage shows investigators arriving at the scene, pointing out a pacifier and blood in the roadway. In the video, you can hear them discussing what witnesses reported seeing.<\/p>\n One witness told police she was behind Golden\u2019s car at a traffic light on McDuff Avenue when she saw a woman get out of the passenger side. She said Golden placed the baby on the sidewalk, then drove away, not realizing the baby had moved back into the road.<\/p>\n \u201cHe just opened the door, laid the baby down\u2026 put the baby out like it was a bag of trash,\u201d the witness later said.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: <\/b>Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/b><\/a>]<\/b><\/p>\n That same witness followed Golden in her car while calling the police. Officers eventually detained Golden, later bringing him in for questioning.<\/p>\n During the interrogation, detectives pressed Golden about why he put the baby outside the car.<\/p>\n \u201cYou don\u2019t want Pablo in the car because you don\u2019t want to be responsible for him, right?\u201d one investigator asked. Golden replied, \u201cRight.\u201d<\/p>\n Golden told detectives he didn\u2019t want the child\u2019s mother accusing him of kidnapping, something he claimed she often threatened.<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: <\/b>Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/b><\/a>]<\/b><\/p>\n But investigators said Golden didn\u2019t know what happened to Pablo until they told him directly in the interrogation room.<\/p>\n \u201cYou started to drive away,\u201d a detective said. \u201cUnfortunately, you struck him with your car. Mr. Pablo was transported to the hospital. Unfortunately, he did not survive.\u201d Golden responded, \u201cI\u2019m in trouble for that?\u201d<\/p>\n Golden has since pleaded guilty in the case. He\u2019s scheduled to be sentenced on Friday, December 12. <\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Body-worn camera footage and hours of interrogation video are filling in critical details about what…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":423761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[12189,5229,13029,3188,723,2863,11561,7310,197656,425,69335,159105,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-423760","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-action_news","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-deja_mayfield","11":"tag-fl","12":"tag-florida","13":"tag-golden","14":"tag-jack","15":"tag-jacksonville","16":"tag-justin_golden","17":"tag-local","18":"tag-mcduff","19":"tag-pablo","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115660487622218106","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423760","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=423760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}