JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 A local family is remembering a 16-year-old boy who was shot and killed in the Sandalwood neighborhood.<\/p>\n
Police said Amir Bostic died during what investigators believe was a drug deal.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Loved ones said he was hanging out with the wrong crowd when his life was taken by gun violence.<\/p>\n \u201cHe was just a kid who just was around the wrong people at the wrong time and he got caught in a situation ended in him losing his life,\u201d Amir\u2019s sister Zakiya Bostic said.<\/p>\n Community activist group MAD DADS said Amir was found lying in the road after the shooting and two other people were also hurt.<\/p>\n RELATED: <\/b>Boy dead, man and another boy injured in shooting involving drug deal, Jacksonville police say<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n \u201cIt hurts me deeply,\u201d Zakiya said.<\/p>\n Zakiya said their family is from Brunswick and Amir lived in Jacksonville with their mom for about two years.<\/p>\n He went to Sandalwood High School.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: <\/b>Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/b><\/a>]<\/b><\/p>\n \u201cAmir was so smart,\u201d Zakiya said. \u201cHe had a lot going for him.\u201d<\/p>\n Now Zakiya is only left with memories of her brother.<\/p>\n \u201cHe was like the glue to our family,\u201d Zakiya said. \u201cHe was a gentleman, he was kind, he was so caring. He gave me a great childhood and I am just grateful for that.\u201d<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: <\/b>Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/b><\/a>] <\/b><\/p>\n JSO said as of now, no arrests have been made in this case.<\/p>\n The investigation is still ongoing.<\/p>\n Anyone with information about the incident can contact JSO at 904-630-0500 or through Crimestoppers at 866-845-TIPS.<\/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 local family is remembering a 16-year-old boy who was shot and killed in the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":451915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[12189,5229,207475,3188,723,11561,7310,425,207474,205036,204582,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-451914","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-amir_botsi","11":"tag-fl","12":"tag-florida","13":"tag-jack","14":"tag-jacksonville","15":"tag-local","16":"tag-mad_dad","17":"tag-marriba_road_east","18":"tag-sandalwood","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115731793429458921","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451914","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=451914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}