“Justice means sitting in a courtroom watching you pay for what you did or watching you guys pay for what you did,” his sister Felicia Hughes said. <\/p>\n
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Nearly a month after 49-year-old Corey Denmark was shot and killed outside a shopping center in Jacksonville, his family is still waiting for answers and pleading for someone to come forward.<\/p>\n
\u201cTomorrow will be 30 days,” Cynthia Hughes, his mother, said. “30 days without my boy.”<\/p>\n
Police say Denmark was found shot in the parking lot of the\u00a0Paxon Shopping Center on Edgewood Avenue around 8 p.m. on Dec. 10. Another person was shot but survived. Denmark did not.<\/p>\n
\u201cI went to the medical examiner\u2019s office, and they showed me a picture of my baby,\u201d Hughes said through tears.<\/p>\n
The Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office said the investigation remains active, but detectives have not released information about a suspect or what led up to the shooting. According to police records, officers responded to more than 100 calls for service at the Paxon Shopping Center in 2025.<\/p>\n
Denmark\u2019s sister, Felicia Hughes, said her brother was not lingering at the shopping center that night.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis area has been known for foolishness,\u201d she said. \u201cMy brother worked across the street at Nationwide. That\u2019s why he was over here, he wasn\u2019t hanging out.\u201d<\/p>\n
Denmark had worked at\u00a0Nationwide Mattress and Furniture for nearly 10 years, where he was known as a dedicated employee and a source of joy for both coworkers and customers.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ll never find anybody that\u2019s going to replace him,\u201d said coworker\u00a0Travis Ross, who added that Denmark trained him when he first started. \u201cHe was proud to tell people he did. I took it as an honor.\u201d<\/p>\n
Family described Denmark as a devoted father of two and a man with a contagious spirit.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s quiet now,\u201d Felicia Hughes said. \u201cCorey was the life of the party.\u201d<\/p>\n
He was also known for his love for the Florida Gators.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe made all of us wear Florida Gator colors for his service,\u201d Felicia recalled.<\/p>\n
Denmark also loved to dance, a memory his mother holds close.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was the last time I danced with my son,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Felicia said the family has endured loss before, but Corey\u2019s death has reopened old wounds.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have not moved on,\u201d she said. \u201cWe\u2019re still in the same spot as the night it happened.\u201d<\/p>\n
Now, the family is calling for justice.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe deserves justice,\u201d Felicia said. \u201cJustice means sitting in a courtroom watching you pay for what you did. It could be your brother, your father, your mother, you\u2019d want justice the same way we want it. We deserve answers.”<\/p>\n
The Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office confirmed the case remains active. They did not confirm if any arrests have been made.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information is urged to contact the Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office or Crime Stoppers at 866-845-TIPS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“Justice means sitting in a courtroom watching you pay for what you did or watching you guys pay…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":505457,"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-505456","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\/115869222389645227","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505456","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=505456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}