BREAKING NEWS ALERT. ♪
BREAKING NEWS TONIGHT NEWS 4 JAX CREWS ARE ON SCENE AT 2 DIFFERENT SHOOTINGS RIGHT NOW
ONE ON THE CITY’S NORTH SIDE,
THE OTHER ACROSS TOWN ON
THE SOUTH’S THE SOURCES ARE
TELLING US THAT AT LEAST ONE
PERSON IS DEAD AND THAT
SHOOTING AT THE BEECHWOOD
APARTMENTS THAT’S NEAR FSCJ
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SOUTH CAMPUS.
>>JOY PURDY: NEWS 4 JAX
REPORTER ERIK AVANIER IS THERE.
ERIC WHAT WE KNOW SO FAR.
>> YES WHAT WE’VE BEEN OUT HERE FOR A LITTLE MORE THAN AN HOUR I’VE SPOKEN WITH NEIGHBORS WHO
SAY THAT SHORTLY AROUND 9
O’CLOCK THIS AREA SOUNDED MORE
LIKE A WAR ZONE AS MULTIPLE
SHOTS WERE BEING FIRED FROM
INSIDE THE BEECHWOOD APARTMENT
THERE NOW THEY SAY THAT IT
SOUNDED LIKE ALL THE SHOT CAME
FROM ONE GUN AND THEY SAY THE
SHOTS WERE SO LOUD THAT IT
SOUNDED LIKE THEY CAME FROM A
SEMI AUTOMATIC RIFLE AS OPPOSED
TO A HANDGUN NOW WE DO KNOW
THAT ALTHOUGH THIS AREA RIGHT
HERE IS PART OF THE CRIME SCENE
WE’RE BEING TOLD BY MULTIPLE
PEOPLE THAT THE ACTUAL SHOOTING
TOOK PLACE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF
THESE BUILDINGS HERE IN THIS
APARTMENT COMPLEX OF IT SINCE
WE’VE BEEN AT THIS LOCATION
WE’VE BEEN ABLE TO SEE THAT
THERE’S A BLACK CAR
THAT APPEARS TO BE INVOLVED IN
THE SHOOTING AND THAT CAR IS
RIDDLED WITH LARGE BULLET
HOLES, IT APPEARS THAT CAR MAY
HAVE CRASHED INTO ANOTHER
VEHICLE AS WELL AS
A FENCE OB GYN WE WERE SEEN A
LOT OF POLICE OF FOCUS THEIR
ATTENTION AROUND THAT CAR AND
JUST MOMENTS AGO I SPOKE
WITH A NEIGHBOR WHO LIVES OUT
HERE SHE DESCRIBES WHAT SHE
HEARD AND WHAT SHE SAW I WANT
YOU TO LISTEN.
>> I HEARD ABOUT 7 TO 9 LOUD GUNSHOTS, NOT AN ORDINARY GUNSHOT.
AND WHEN I CAME OUTSIDE TO SEE
WHAT WAS GOING ON I SAW
THE VEHICLE THAT WAS SHOT RUN
INTO THE FENCE. IN THE
NEIGHBORHOOD.
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NEIGHBORHOOD. ♪ >> THAT APPEARED TO ALSO MAYBE
RUN INTO
ANOTHER VEHICLE.
>> IT DID THERE’S SOME TYPE AND
CHEAPER SOMETHING
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>> SITTING THERE.
>> NOW ANOTHER MAN I SPOKE WITH ALSO SAYS HE WAS OUT HERE AND HE SAW THAT VEHICLE RUN I’M
GOING TO STEP OUT OF THE WAY
HERE IT’S THAT BLACK VEHICLE
RUN INTO THAT JEEP AND ALSO
LOOK WHAT LOOKS LIKE A FENCE
THAT IS LIKE THAT IS BENT OVER
AGAIN ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THIS
BUILDING IS WHERE POLICE HAVE
NOW FOCUS A LOT OF THEIR
ATTENTION BECAUSE OF THAT IS
FROM WHERE WE’RE BEING TOLD
WHERE THE SHOOTING ACTUALLY
HAPPENED SO THIS CRASH SCENE AS
WHAT HAPPENED AFTER THE
SHOOTING JUST MOMENTS.
AFTERWARDS OF COURSE WE’RE
STILL TRYING TO GET MORE
INFORMATION
AND AT SOME POINT JSO HAPPY
BRIEFING TO LET US KNOW WHAT
THEY KNOW AND AS SOON AS WE GET
THAT INFORMATION WE’RE GOING TO
POST THAT ON OUR WEBSITE NEWS 4
JAX DOT COM REPORTING LIVE ERIK
AVANIER CHANNEL 4 THE LOCAL
STATION.
>>JOY PURDY: ERIC THANK YOU WERE ALSO ON THE SCENE OF ANOTHER SHOOTING TONIGHT THIS
ONE IS NEAR DUNN AVENUE OVER ON
THE NORTH SIDE OF NEWS 4 JAX
REPORTER MAGGIE LORENZ IS THERE
LIVE IN MAGGIE WHAT CAN YOU
TELL US ABOUT WHAT’S HAPPENING
AT THAT SCENE.
>> SO THIS REALLY NOT TOO MUCH OF A SCENE LEFT NOW YOU CAN SEE THAT
THEY’RE STILL ARE A COUPLE OF
JSO CRUISERS THAT REMAIN OUT
HERE LIKE YOU SAID THIS IS DONE
AVENUE WHERE NEAR DUVALL ROAD
AND FOR REFERENCE WE’RE RIGHT
ACROSS THE STREET FROM GARDEN
CITY ELEMENTARY.
>> THE JSO WANTS TO STRESS THAT
THE SCHOOL IS NOT INVOLVED IN
THIS INVESTIGATION.
SO YES, IT WAS A VERY ACTIVE WE
GOT HERE AROUND 10 O’CLOCK BUT
JSO
IS STARTING TO PACK UP, BUT
THEY WERE OUT HERE FOR HOURS
THEY FIRST GOT THAT 911 CALL
AROUND 6.30 THIS EVENING AND
WHEN OFFICERS GOT HERE,
THEY FOUND A SILVER JEEP THAT
CRASHED INTO A FENCE WITH A MAN
SOMEWHERE AROUND 20 TO 25 YEARS
OLD INSIDE OF
THAT JEEP. HE HAD BEEN SHOT
MULTIPLE TIMES AND WAS STILL
ALIVE WHEN OFFICERS GOT INTO
THE CAR. HE WAS RUSHED TO THE
HOSPITAL WHERE HE LATER DIED
FROM
HIS INJURIES. WE GOT HERE RIGHT
AS DETECTIVES WERE HAULING AWAY
THAT SHE FOR FURTHER
INVESTIGATION, A SERGEANT ON
SCENE HERE TELLS US THERE WERE
20 ROUNDS FIRED
AND BECAUSE OF THE AMOUNT OF
GUNFIRE THAT SERGEANT SAID THEY
DON’T KNOW IF THERE ARE
MULTIPLE SHOOTERS BUT THEY ARE
CANVASSING
THIS AREA LOOKING FOR ANY
WITNESSES AND WHOEVER IS
RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS IS STILL
ON THE LOOSE.
I ASKED JSO IF THERE’S ANY
THREAT OF PEOPLE WHO LIVE
AROUND HERE NEED TO BE WORRIED
THE SERGEANT TELLS ME THAT
AS WITH ANY HOMICIDE
INVESTIGATION. YES, THEY ARE
ASKING THAT PEOPLE STAY ALERT
AND TO REPORT ANY INFORMATION
THAT THEY MAY
HAVE AGAIN A MAN AGED 20 TO 25
IS DEAD FOLLOWING THE SHOOTING
WE ASKED JSO IF THERE’S ANY
VEHICLE OR SUSPECT INFORMATION
PEOPLE
CAN BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THAT
SERGEANT TELLS US THEY DON’T
HAVE THAT BUT THEY ARE WORKING
TO RELEASE SOMETHING SO WE’LL
KEEP YOU UPDATED. IN THE
MEANTIME IF YOU HAVE ANY