JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Jacksonville police shot a man to death early Friday after the officers said he charged at them with a knife. Police responded to a domestic call at about 10:10 p.m. Thursday for a report of a man armed with a knife.<\/p>\n
After officers arrived at the location on Fox Hill Drive in Jacksonville\u2019s Dinsmore area, they spoke with the victim and learned that the suspect, identified as 62-year-old Jose Cabrera, had left the scene.<\/p>\n
The victim, Cabrera\u2019s wife, told officers that he threatened her before fleeing the scene, police said at a news conference Friday morning.<\/p>\n
The officers were able to speak with Cabrera over the phone and he told police that he was, \u201cnot going back to jail and they would have to kill him,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Officers learned that Cabrera was likely at a relatives home and responded to that area. At about 12:30 a.m. Friday, police made contact with Cabrera who was in a car.<\/p>\n The officers ordered the man to get out of the car. He complied and charged at the officers with the knife, police said. The three officers shot at Cabrera.<\/p>\n He was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n The three officers involved were all new to the force and it was their first night on patrols, police said.<\/p>\n The incident is the second this week in which a person was shot and killed by Jacksonville officers and the fifth officer-involved shooting this year.<\/p>\n Read:<\/b> Jacksonville officers shoot, kill man in Oceanway area after following suspected stolen vehicle<\/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 Jacksonville police shot a man to death early Friday after the officers said he charged…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":586929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5136],"tags":[254050,5229,107041,3188,723,254051,254047,254052,11561,254049,46580,7310,8423,425,157107,50,254048,49106,254053,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,177391,250518],"class_list":["post-586928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-7800_block","tag-america","tag-dinsmore","tag-fl","tag-florida","tag-foxtail_lane","tag-foxtail_road","tag-griffiths","tag-jack","tag-jack_zion_dakota","tag-jacks","tag-jacksonville","tag-jso","tag-local","tag-morris","tag-news","tag-old_kings_road","tag-phil","tag-rodden","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-zion","tag-zion_deoto"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116063030825135402","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586928","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=586928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}