JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 A man is dead following a shooting on Monday in Northwest Jacksonville.<\/p>\n
It happened around 8 a.m. Monday inside a local laundry business on Soutel Drive. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe suspect approached the victim and shot him,\u201d said Sgt. La\u2019Tosha Thompson with the Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office\u2019s Homicide Unit.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n Investigators said the victim was a man in his early 20\u2019s. Police are still looking for whoever pulled the trigger and working to learn the motive behind it.<\/p>\n The shooting comes after 11 people were shot over the weekend in Duval County. <\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n When asked if this shooting had any relation to any of the shootings over the weekend, JSO said it was too early in the investigation to tell. <\/p>\n Given all the shootings recently, Sgt. Thompson has this message to the public. \u201cWe need to be safe out here and make sure that we know the gun laws and try to use some sort of conflict resolution,\u201d said Sgt. Thompson.<\/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 A man is dead following a shooting on Monday in Northwest Jacksonville. It happened around…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[14189,982,969,116,118,117,1872,634,644,656,58158,16865,58157,79029],"class_list":{"0":"post-166040","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-action","9":"tag-action_news","10":"tag-jack","11":"tag-jacksonville","12":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","13":"tag-jacksonville-news","14":"tag-jso","15":"tag-local","16":"tag-madison","17":"tag-madison_foglio","18":"tag-new_kings_road","19":"tag-northwest_jacksonville","20":"tag-suel_drive","21":"tag-suelt_drive"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166040","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=166040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}