{"id":497794,"date":"2026-01-07T01:36:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T01:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/497794\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T01:36:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T01:36:15","slug":"im-destroyed-wife-mourns-husband-killed-after-reportedly-pulling-gun-on-jacksonville-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/497794\/","title":{"rendered":"‘I\u2019m destroyed’: Wife mourns husband killed after reportedly pulling gun on Jacksonville officers"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Jacksonville woman spoke to First Coast News after her husband was killed in an officer-involved shooting Monday while police investigated their domestic dispute.<\/p>\n

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 A Jacksonville woman says she is left \u201cempty\u201d and \u201cdestroyed\u201d after her husband was shot and killed by police during a domestic dispute investigation at an apartment complex in the Bartram Park area.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office said officers responded to the Luxor Club Apartments around 8:30 p.m. Monday for a reported conflict between a married couple. An employee of the complex told police they heard a woman screaming and saw her on top of the hood of a Tesla, banging on it. Once the woman got off the vehicle, the driver, later identified by JSO as 34-year-old Daniel Rodriguez, drove away.<\/p>\n

According to JSO, Rodriguez later returned to the complex, and a caller reported seeing him with a gun. Officers separated the couple and went to interview Rodriguez about the domestic dispute when investigators said he pulled out a gun.<\/p>\n

Two officers then fired their weapons, shooting Rodriguez. He was taken to the hospital, but later died from his injuries.<\/p>\n

First Coast News spoke with a woman who identified herself as Rodriguez\u2019s wife. She said they had been married for about 15 years and were struggling after the stillbirth of their child last December.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was an amazing dad, a good husband. We were just struggling,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s hard when you have to bury a kid. Parents aren\u2019t supposed to bury their kids, and now I\u2019m burying a husband too.\u201d<\/p>\n


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The woman said she was nearby when the shooting happened and witnessed the moments after the first shots were fired.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was right here at the stop sign when the first shot went off, and then I ran over there, and they were shooting him, and he was on the ground,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

She also pointed out bullet holes in her car, which she said were left during the shooting.<\/p>\n


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\u201cEmpty, I\u2019m destroyed. But I have a little girl I have to raise,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

JSO said the officer-involved shooting is under investigation, which is standard procedure. The State Attorney\u2019s Office will also review the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Jacksonville woman spoke to First Coast News after her husband was killed in an officer-involved shooting Monday…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":497795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,3188,723,7310,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-497794","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-fl","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-jacksonville","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115851256760242822","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497794","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=497794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}