JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 The Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office is investigating a deadly shooting that happened on the Northside at the Breakwater Studio Apartments near Interstate 95 and Broward Road.<\/p>\n
Around 10:57 p.m. Thursday, JSO said a witness alerted them to a Black male between the ages of 20-30 unconscious and unresponsive in the complex\u2019s courtyard near building number 5.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n The victim was taken to the hospital, where doctors discovered he was shot in his chest. They tried to save him, but he died.<\/p>\n At the time of this article\u2019s publication, the victim\u2019s name, or suspect information, has not been confirmed by JSO.<\/p>\n Neighbors provided Action News Jax reporter Zion Decoteau with the name of a man who lived or was visiting a relative inside the apartment police were searching. The visual description they gave of him matched JSO\u2019s victim description. <\/p>\n Decoteau also observed multiple people on social media saying \u201cRIP\u201d and tagging the account of a man whose name matched the name provided by a person identifying themself as family friend of the supposed victim. <\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: <\/b>Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/b><\/a>]<\/b><\/p>\n Resident Gordon Lamont said he has a good relationship with his neighbor, even remembering the last time he saw the man next door. <\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s like my son,\u201d Lamont said. \u201cWhen I came out to dump my garbage, his door was wide open. I didn\u2019t hear nothing so I seen his car over there.\u201d<\/p>\n The man from the Bronx wearing a shirt from Brooklyn said he left the Big Apple for Jacksonville \u2013 ironically to escape violence. <\/p>\n [SIGN UP: <\/b>Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/b><\/a>] <\/b><\/p>\n \u201cI was tired of the gunshots, can\u2019t sleep at night,\u201d Lamont said. \u201cNew York City, I probably would\u2019ve been safer there than I am here.\u201d<\/p>\n Detectives are trying to get surveillance video and are talking to witnesses in the apartment complex.<\/p>\n If you know anything, contact JSO at 904-630-0500 or Crime Stoppers at 1-866-845-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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 The Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office is investigating a deadly shooting that happened on the Northside at…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":945319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5136],"tags":[12189,15619,5229,380699,380697,380696,380695,8471,1121,228481,1066,3188,723,380698,109597,11561,259143,7310,13035,12179,8423,425,214878,49106,206885,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,177391,249490],"class_list":["post-945318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-action_news","tag-action_news_jack","tag-america","tag-big_apple","tag-breakwater","tag-breakwater_studio","tag-breakwater_studio_apartments","tag-bronx","tag-brooklyn","tag-broward_road","tag-facebook","tag-fl","tag-florida","tag-gordon_lamont","tag-i-95","tag-jack","tag-jack_zion_dekoto","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville_sheriffs_office","tag-jfrd","tag-jso","tag-local","tag-new_york_city","tag-phil","tag-uf_health","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-zion","tag-zion_dekoto"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945318","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=945318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/945319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}