the way. Thanks for joining us. The news continues at 6 o’clock in fact it starts right now
with Tom and Mary.
♪
♪
>> That breaking news Huguenot Park where we just Florida man has been
bitten by a shark.
>> It happened about an hour
ago the man was bitten on the
arm and he was taken to the
hospital with non life
threatening injuries. It’s not
clear if he was swimming or
surfing when it happened.
But this is the 5th shark bite
in our waters this year.
>> A police chase ends in a
fatal crash in the Panama Park
community on the north side.
Now neighbors are asking
questions about it.
>> And then like that.
Happened 2 years since
we’ve been here and I’ve never
seen a police station area.
>> It was hot pursuit that
turned deadly. We’re still
working to learn more about the
person who was killed.
3 others were injured when an
SUV crashed on East 44th Street
near rose Avenue at around 7
last night.
>> Officers have not said where
the chase began. News
♪
4 Jax dot.
>> With us live from the scene
with what
♪
>> he’s learned that.
>> And Mary just a few moments
ago, I spoke with a witness who
lives around the corner and he
says that he saw the tail end
of that police chase
at least 2 unmarked to law
enforcement vehicles, chasing
that a red SUV up and down
Easter 44th here he doesn’t
know how it ended but he does
know that it was a violent
impact if you look at the scene
you will see what is left
behind.
♪
Look closely and you will see signs of what happened to the night before a violent crash
that left one
person dead.
>> And several more hurt at the
scene of the taping everything
world everything rolled off and
we couldn’t get into the With
British series neighbors with
more questions than answers
their Street taped off for
hours, you’re worried about
your family, your neighbors and
the when ice and everything
else go she’s you know somewhat
broken uh
oh 4.
>> Somebody broke my Tonight
during a joint operation, the
law
enforcement agencies, a vehicle
was driving in an erratic and
dangerous manner. A pursuit was
initiated upon a vehicle to try
to stop the vehicle.
Jacksonville police handling
the investigation, but they say
it was not their
officers who are involved in
the chase investigators have
not yet finished to the crash
report to the details about
what happened here.
>> Have not been released yet
but taking a look at the scene
in the daylight.
We are able to paint a picture
of what took place this large
oak tree appears to have
stopped the vehicle from going
into that home you can see a
lot of damage the bark ripped
off here and the impact was so
strong and powerful that it
caused glass and pieces of that
car to scatter all across the
driveway.
♪
driveway. ♪ The grass and the road at.
News for Jax crime and
safety expert Ken Jefferson was
a jso officer for more than 20
years. He says police must make
split second decisions in
scenarios like this one.
Jso traffic homicide unit is handling the investigation so far they have
not finalized their reports we
do not have the name of the
person who lost their life or
the other passengers in that
vehicle, they say it is
an active and ongoing
investigation. We have
requested
that report as well as
potential body camera or dash
cam footage if it is available.
If we get that we’ll pass it
along to you we’re live
Vic micolucci Channel 4 the
local station.
♪
>> That if the sheriffs office says it wasn’t Jacksonville police that question that needs
to be answered is.
>> Well did participate in this
case.
>> And that’s Tom what
neighbors want to know jso a
spokesman said it wasn’t
Jacksonville. Sheriff’s
officers and he couldn’t
comment about what agency it
was so I called around
the Florida Highway Patrol said
state troopers were not
involved in this joint
investigation in any way
we also spoke with the da the
leader of the Jacksonville
office said his agents were not
involved I did reach out to a
spokeswoman with the FBI
Jacksonville office and she
said her agency did not have
any she did
not confirm or deny any
involvement in the
investigation and the
subsequent chase.
♪