JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Two men were injured, one with life-threatening wounds, following an exchange of gunfire at a business on the 4600 block of Shirley Avenue this afternoon, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office. <\/p>\n
The shooting occurred after a clerk attempted to stop a theft at the store where he was working and was then confronted by a second suspect, who opened fire.<\/p>\n
The store clerk, an adult male in his early 20s, was shot in the chest and remains in life-threatening condition.<\/p>\n
A second adult male, also in his early 20s, later arrived at a local hospital with a gunshot wound to his abdomen after the incident and is in critical condition.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n Several businesses and vehicles were struck during the exchange of gunfire.<\/p>\n JSO has detained several people in relation to this incident and does not believe there to be any further threat to the community.<\/p>\n Robbery and Violent Crime detectives are canvassing the neighborhood for additional witnesses and video surveillance that may have captured the shooting. <\/p>\n Anyone with information regarding the shooting is asked to contact the Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office at 904-630-0500. Tips can also be submitted online at JSOCRIMETIPS@JAXSHERIFF.ORG or by calling the Crime Stoppers hotline at 866-845-TIPS.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Two men were injured, one with life-threatening wounds, following an exchange of gunfire at a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[344,347,28,348,116,351,118,117,349,350,346,345],"class_list":["post-139252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-action-news-jax","tag-cbs47","tag-florida","tag-fox30","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-fl","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-northeast-florida","tag-southeast-georgia","tag-wfox","tag-wjax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}