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The Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office said a man who said he would \u201ccome out shooting\u201d was killed by an officer on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n
JSO shared a photo of the Gate gas station on Bowden Road near Interstate 95 roped off with crime scene tape.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n Jacksonville Undersheriff Shawn Coarsey said officers were dispatched to a reported armed robbery around 9:22 a.m.<\/p>\n Coarsey said a middle-aged man entered the Gate gas station around 9:15 a.m. and walked around the store and waited until other customers left.<\/p>\n He pulled out a handgun and demanded the employees exit the store, Coarsey said. The man also made comments about self-harm.<\/p>\n As the employees exited, the man stayed inside, watching the front door. He opened the door and told employees he\u2019d \u201ccome out shooting,\u201d Coarsey said.<\/p>\n He asked the employees to call police. When officers arrived, he told police he\u2019d \u201ccome out shooting,\u201d Coarsey said.<\/p>\n He closed the door, opened the door, raised the gun and walked toward officers, Coarsey said.<\/p>\n An officer fired his rifle several times, and the man was killed, Coarsey said. The man was approximately 40 yards away when the officer fired.<\/p>\n \u201cHe didn\u2019t fire his gun,\u201d Coarsey said of the man.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re not gonna let him fire his gun,\u201d Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters said.<\/p>\n \u201cHe had the gun straight up at the officers and briskly approached them,\u201d Coarsey said.<\/p>\n \u201cSo we\u2019re never gonna let a person fire at us if we can avoid it,\u201d Waters said.<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n This is JSO\u2019s sixth officer-involved shooting of 2026 and the State Attorney\u2019s Office is investigating.<\/p>\n Police are still working to identify the man, Coarsey said.<\/p>\n Police are asking people to avoid the area and they said all officers are OK.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office said a man who said he would \u201ccome out shooting\u201d was killed by an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[761,90578,116,118,117,90577,1872],"class_list":["post-195111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-free-action-news-jax","tag-gate-gas-station","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-jax-sheriff","tag-jso"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195111","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=195111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}