{"id":279179,"date":"2026-05-21T07:14:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T07:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/279179\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T07:14:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T07:14:18","slug":"jacksonville-police-identify-suspect-in-fatal-shooting-of-6-year-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/279179\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville police identify suspect in fatal shooting of 6-year-old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Jacksonville Police Department has identified a suspect in connection with the fatal shooting of a 6-year-old boy Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said 21-year-old Artavius Dontel Johnson is believed to have been involved in the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Police said Johnson was last seen driving a white Hyundai Elantra with Arkansas license plate BGP35N.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said warrants are being issued for Johnson\u2019s arrest and warned he should be considered armed and dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>Officers were originally called to the 4000 block of South Highway 161 Sunday night following reports of shots fired. When officers arrived, they found a 6-year-old boy inside a vehicle suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. The child later died at a hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who comes into contact with Johnson is urged to contact the Jacksonville Police Department immediately.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information on Johnson\u2019s whereabouts is asked to contact Detective Hernandez with the Jacksonville Police Department at 501-985-2802.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">WebReadyTM Powered by WireReady\u00ae\u00a0NSI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Jacksonville Police Department has identified a suspect in connection with the fatal shooting of a 6-year-old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-279179","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\/279179","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=279179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}