A man suspected in a murder that happened Wednesday morning is dead after he shot at officers, the Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office said.<\/p>\n
JSO was investigating a shooting around 5:30 a.m. in the 8200 block of Susie Street in which a woman was killed and a man was injured, JSO Undersheriff Shawn Coarsey said.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n Coarsey said \u201calmost immediately\u201d a person of interest in that shooting was identified.<\/p>\n JSO found that this person, a 53-year-old man, had an active warrant for theft that was issued on Dec. 31.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n Coarsey said that JSO\u2019s Community Problem Response Unit began tracking the man to arrest him on the warrant and located him in the 5100 block of Julington Creek Road.<\/p>\n Police blocked the man\u2019s car in from the front and from the back, and the man tried to \u201cdefeat that block\u201d but failed, Coarsey said.<\/p>\n The man pointed a gun at officers and fired at least one time.<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s physical evidence that the suspect fired that gun, and a firearm was recovered underneath the suspect\u2019s body,\u201d Coarsey said.<\/p>\n Five officers returned fire, killing the suspect at the scene, Coarsey said.<\/p>\n For two of the officers, it was their second officer-involved shooting and for the other three, it was their first officer-involved shooting.<\/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":"A man suspected in a murder that happened Wednesday morning is dead after he shot at officers, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117,1415,1872,107067,21972],"class_list":{"0":"post-242510","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-jacksonville","9":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","10":"tag-jacksonville-news","11":"tag-jacksonville-sheriffs-office","12":"tag-jso","13":"tag-jso-undersheriff-shawn-coarsey","14":"tag-officers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242510","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=242510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}