{"id":156587,"date":"2026-02-15T20:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T20:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/156587\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T20:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T20:46:08","slug":"police-investigating-after-jacksonville-shooting-leaves-1-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/156587\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigating after Jacksonville shooting leaves 1 dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">JACKSONVILLE, Ill. (WCIA) \u2014 The Jacksonville Police Department is investigating after a shooting on Saturday evening left one person dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officers responded to the 800 block of West Chambers Ave. around 5:45 p.m. for a report of shots fired. When officers arrived on scene, they found one person with a gunshot wound. Police said the victim was brought to Jacksonville Memorial Hospital with life threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a class=\"link  yahoo-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/26-old-woman-killed-reported-181646119.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:26-year-old woman killed in reported accidental shooting in Decatur;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> 26-year-old woman killed in reported accidental shooting in Decatur <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The gunshot victim, identified by the Morgan County Coroner as 31-year-old Marcquila Harris of Jacksonville, was later pronounced dead. An autopsy has been scheduled for Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police added that the incident is believed to be isolated and that the investigation is ongoing. Anyone with more information should contact the police department at 217-479-4630 or Crime<br \/>Stoppers at 217-243-7300.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcia.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WCIA.com.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WCIA.com. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Ill. (WCIA) \u2014 The Jacksonville Police Department is investigating after a shooting on Saturday evening left one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[75151,116,118,117,40109,75152],"class_list":["post-156587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-gunshot-victim","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-morgan-county-coroner","tag-wcia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156587","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=156587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}