A carjacking turned violent on Campus Hill Drive in Jacksonville when a man was shot in the leg during an altercation, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said.<\/p>\n
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office responded to a reported carjacking with a shooting around 7:40 p.m. Sunday in the 4000 block of Campus Hill Drive.<\/p>\n
When officers arrived, they found a man in his mid-20s with a gunshot wound to his right leg. He was taken by the Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department to a local hospital in stable condition.<\/p>\n
JSO said the victim had gone to a residence on Campus Hill Drive to drop off his child. After the child went inside, the victim became involved in a verbal dispute that escalated into a physical altercation with an unknown man at the home.<\/p>\n
Police said the suspect retrieved a handgun and struck the victim multiple times before getting into the victim\u2019s vehicle. The victim tried to stop the theft, but the suspect drove away while the victim was partially inside the vehicle.<\/p>\n
During the struggle, the suspect shot the victim once in the leg, police said. The victim then fell onto the roadway, suffering abrasions and road rash.<\/p>\n
The suspect fled the scene in the vehicle, which was later found abandoned a short distance away. No arrests have been announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A carjacking turned violent on Campus Hill Drive in Jacksonville when a man was shot in the leg…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-229875","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\/229875","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=229875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}