A man was shot and killed by police at a Jacksonville gas station during an armed standoff after a reported robbery. <\/p>\n
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 A man was shot and killed by police late Tuesday morning after an armed standoff at a Gate gas station on Bowden Road that began as a reported robbery, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said.<\/p>\n
In a briefing, JSO Undersheriff Shawn Coarsey said officers were dispatched around 9:22 a.m. to a report of an armed robbery involving a middle-aged white man. Investigators said three employees were inside the store at the time.<\/p>\n
According to police, the man walked around the store for several minutes and once customers left the business, the man pulled a handgun from his waistline and began making threats toward the employees and himself.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He then ordered the employees out of the store and told them to call police, while warning that he would come out shooting.<\/p>\n
When officers responded, the man continued making threats and told them he would exit the store firing. He raised his handgun and began approaching officers.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Undersheriff Coarsey said an officer ultimately shot the man with a rifle.<\/p>\n
\u00a0The man was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n
“We’re not going to let him fire a gun [at our officers],” said Sheriff TK Waters<\/p>\n
Undersheriff Coarsey said the incident appears to be a case of \u201csuicide by cop.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
No officers or civilians were injured, and officials said there is no ongoing threat to the public.<\/p>\n
Police also noted that glass at the business was damaged during the confrontation and it is unknown how this will affect the gas station’s operations.<\/p>\n
The State Attorney\u2019s Office is conducting an independent investigation into the incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This shooting marks as JSO’s 6th officer-involved shooting of 2025. Four have been fatal.<\/p>\n
This is a developing situation. We will update this article with more information as it comes in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was shot and killed by police at a Jacksonville gas station during an armed standoff after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-195142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195142","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=195142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}