{"id":165503,"date":"2026-02-23T11:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T11:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/165503\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T11:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T11:14:08","slug":"10-wounded-in-3-jacksonville-area-shootings-in-2-days-including-teen-takeover-lil-poppa-memorial-action-news-jax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/165503\/","title":{"rendered":"10 wounded in 3 Jacksonville area shootings in 2 days, including teen takeover, Lil Poppa memorial \u2013 Action News Jax"},"content":{"rendered":"

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Ten people were shot in three separate incidents across Duval County over the weekend. The shootings occurred in Jacksonville Beach, the Eastside and Mandarin, resulting in at least one victim with a life-threatening injury.<\/p>\n

The violence began Saturday night during a music festival and continued through Sunday morning. While Jacksonville police have made arrests in the Mandarin shooting, suspects remain at large in the Jacksonville Beach and Eastside cases.<\/p>\n

The first shooting occurred Saturday night<\/a> during the Community First Seawalk Music Festival in Jacksonville Beach. Four people were shot, including one minor, after a fight among a group of teenagers escalated into gunfire.<\/p>\n

Jacksonville Beach police described the incident as part of a \u201cteen takeover\u201d and believe there may have been more than one shooter. All four victims sustained injuries that are considered non-life-threatening, police said.<\/p>\n

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A second shooting took place early Sunday morning<\/a> on Jacksonville\u2019s Eastside. Four people were shot during a party held to honor the life of Lil\u2019 Poppa, a Jacksonville rapper who died last week in Atlanta. Investigators stated that the four victims are in non-life-threatening condition. Police are still searching for a suspect in that case.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember him [Lil Poppa] as a little kid singing and rapping inside the church,\u201d said Robert Phelps who attends the nearby First Baptist Church of Oakland.<\/p>\n

The said the shooting isn\u2019t normal for \u201cOut East.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI haven\u2019t seen anything like this happening or heard anything like this happening here in years, so yeah, definitely out of character,\u201d he said. \u201cI mean, they always have gatherings every night,\u201d Phelps added.<\/p>\n

The third shooting happened Sunday in Mandarin<\/a>, where two people were found shot in separate locations. One person was discovered with life-threatening injuries in a Lowe\u2019s parking lot on Oldfield Crossing Drive. A second person was found shot in his car miles away at the intersection of Old St. Augustine Road and Bartram Park Boulevard.<\/p>\n

Penny Divine was shopping at the Mandarin Lowe\u2019s with her mother when the shooting began. She said she initially mistook the sound of the shots for a car backfiring.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy mom and I walked over here to get a shopping cart for the dog … I heard something that sounded like backfire and basically there was like a few people, but a guy was running toward us and I didn\u2019t know it was gunfire until I saw him fall,\u201d Divine said. \u201cHe was running across, but he turned back and when he fell, he appeared to be shooting back and so I told my mom, who is 80, to run.\u201d<\/p>\n

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2 men shot in a Lowe’s Parking Lot in Mandarin <\/p>\n

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