JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 The Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office says a two-year-old was shot and killed last night following a domestic dispute.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n In a press briefing held early this morning, they said that police responded to a \u201cshots fired\u201d call just before midnight in Hillcrest, where they found a two-year-old with a single gunshot wound.<\/p>\n He was transported to a nearby hospital, where he was later pronounced deceased.<\/p>\n The incident occurred at Valencia Way, an apartment complex formerly known as Eureka Gardens.<\/p>\n JSO Lieutenant Jacob Vorpahl says that, amidst the dispute, a firearm was discharged. Shortly after, a person involved in the shooting left the scene. JSO has not yet confirmed if the person who fled was the shooter or what their relationship was with the child.<\/p>\n They say that, upon their arrival, everyone else at the scene has been cooperating with authorities.<\/p>\n JSO has yet to release the identities of any suspects.<\/p>\n We reached out to JSO for additional information and are awaiting a response.<\/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 says a two-year-old was shot and killed last night following a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5226,982,7840,55102,88568,73500,93471,15067,14186,116,118,117,93472,63703,1872,634,115,34238,86636],"class_list":["post-203179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-5226","tag-action_news","tag-ben_becker","tag-casey","tag-casey_stone","tag-cbs_47","tag-eureka_gardens","tag-fox","tag-jacks","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-jao","tag-jason","tag-jso","tag-local","tag-news","tag-taneka_hughes","tag-valencia_way"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203179","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=203179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}