JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 The Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office is investigating after a man was found shot and killed Friday evening on the city\u2019s Northside.<\/p>\n
Officers say they were called around 5:45 p.m. to the 200 block of Vernis Avenue after someone reported a shooting.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n When officers got there, they found a man with at least one gunshot wound. He was pronounced dead at the scene, JSO said.<\/p>\n Police say several witnesses were taken to the Police Memorial Building for interviews, along with a person of interest.<\/p>\n Investigators say they are still trying to figure out exactly what led up to the shooting.<\/p>\n JSO asks anyone with information to call the Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office at 904-630-0500, email jsocrimetips@jaxsheriff.org<\/a>, or call Crime Stoppers 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 The Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office is investigating after a man was found shot and killed Friday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[690,694,3477,696,5520,220,265,3977,5521,5522,702,2624,5507,11578,23305,705,5508,5509,23083,1109,15789,667,116,118,117,712,715,5511,85959,1933,85960,132,1279,40529,722,504,725,1184,2631,3577,5515,5516,6411,6410,13495,5519],"class_list":["post-182170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-accident","tag-background","tag-blood","tag-blue","tag-boundary","tag-car","tag-crime","tag-criminal","tag-cross","tag-csi","tag-danger","tag-dead","tag-death","tag-detective","tag-do","tag-enforcement","tag-evidence","tag-forensic","tag-forensics","tag-homicide","tag-investigate","tag-investigation","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-law","tag-lights","tag-line","tag-marker","tag-murder","tag-outline","tag-police","tag-rain","tag-rainy","tag-red","tag-safety","tag-scene","tag-security","tag-sheriff","tag-sign","tag-tape","tag-text","tag-victim","tag-violence","tag-warning","tag-yellow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182170","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=182170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}