{"id":218746,"date":"2026-04-04T15:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T15:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/218746\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T15:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T15:10:08","slug":"man-hospitalized-after-dice-game-leads-to-shooting-on-jacksonvilles-northside-jso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/218746\/","title":{"rendered":"Man hospitalized after dice game leads to shooting on Jacksonville&#8217;s Northside: JSO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The suspect and all witnesses fled following the shooting, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 A man in his 50s was hospitalized early Saturday morning after being shot while playing a dice game at a motel on Jacksonville&#8217;s Northside, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>JSO Sgt. Mitlyng said officers responded to the shooting at the Metro Inn &amp; Suites at 1055 Golfair Blvd. around 2:15 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Upon their arrival, Mitlyng said officers found the man who was shot, suffering from a non-life-threatening gunshot wound. He was then taken to a local hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The initial investigation has revealed that the victim was playing dice outside the motel when the suspect approached and opened fire,&#8221; Mityling told First Coast News. &#8220;The suspect and all witnesses then fled the area.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information on the incident is asked to call JSO&#8217;s non-emergency number at 904-630-0500. To provide information anonymously, contact Crime Stoppers at 1-866-845-TIPS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The suspect and all witnesses fled following the shooting, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff&#8217;s Office. JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-218746","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\/218746","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=218746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}