JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 On Thursday night, the Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office said a man, later identified as 62-year-old Jose Cabrera, was shot and killed by three of its officers following a domestic disturbance call in the Dinsmore area. <\/p>\n
The incident marked the fifth officer-involved shooting in the city this year, including the second time that it ended with someone\u2019s death. <\/p>\n
Throughout all of last year, the agency was involved in 11 deadly officer-involved shootings and 17 overall. <\/p>\n
Jan. 5 – Bartram Park <\/a><\/p>\n The first officer-involved shooting of the year also marked its first homicide. <\/p>\n According to police, officers were called to the Luxor Club Apartments on Egrets Nest Drive around 8:30 p.m. and learned that an argument had taken place between a husband and wife.<\/p>\n According to JSO, one caller said she heard a woman screaming. When she stepped outside to see what was going on, she said she saw a woman on top of a Tesla banging on the hood of the vehicle.<\/p>\n The woman then got off the car, and the man, 35-year-old Daniel Rodriguez, drove away before returning to the complex. <\/p>\n When officers went to approach Rodriguez, they said he pulled a firearm from his waistband, leading the JSO officers to fire at him. Despite efforts to render aid, Rodriguez died at the scene, JSO said.<\/p>\n Jan. 5 – Arlington<\/a><\/p>\n On the same night of the first incident, another officer-involved shooting took place in Arlington, when a man reportedly pointed a rifle at officers before barricading himself inside his home. <\/p>\n JSO said that when officers approached the house, they saw the man and told him to drop his rifle. <\/p>\n Police said the man followed orders and was taken into custody. However, the man\u2019s father, Offero Manalon, 68, picked up the rifle that his son had dropped and began pointing it at officers. <\/p>\n That\u2019s when three officers shot at him before he went back inside his home. <\/p>\n The SWAT team was called to the scene, which set off a three-hour standoff, police said. After gassing the residence, Manalon was taken into custody. <\/p>\n It was never revealed where Manalon was shot and no update has been given on the status of his condition. <\/p>\n Jan. 11 – Brentwood<\/a><\/p>\n Six days after the first two officer-involved shootings of the year, the third one took place in the Brentwood area when Samuel Deondre Cook, 35, walked up to an unmarked police car and pointed a gun at two officers who were inside. <\/p>\n \u201cHe walked up to a car that was occupied, not knowing who was in it, and pointed a gun at the individuals inside,\u201d JSO Chief Michael Paul said at a briefing of the incident. <\/p>\n The two officers shot at Cook from inside the car and managed to exit the vehicle as Cook ran away from them while continuing to shoot. <\/p>\n A chase ensued for about two blocks before police were able to take Cook into custody. <\/p>\n The incident prompted Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters to warn the community<\/a> about the dangers of pulling guns on police officers. <\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t think anyone should walk up to a car and point a gun inside the vehicle. When you do that, you are putting yourself in grave danger,\u201d Waters said. \u201cIf it is the police, or anyone else of that matter, this is America, citizens have the right to bear arms. You might pull a gun on a citizen and get shot for doing that.\u201d<\/p>\n Waters also emphasized that officer-involved shootings are never easy and called it a traumatic experience for law enforcement.<\/p>\n \u201cThey take administrative leave, they take time off, they see doctors before they come back to work, it\u2019s an entire process,\u201d Waters said. \u201cFor one, we aren\u2019t sociopaths; we\u2019re not crazy people. We just want to serve our community, and that\u2019s what they are doing, and sometimes they find themselves in tough situations.\u201d<\/p>\n