JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 The Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office is investigating a deadly shooting that happened on the Northside at the Breakwater Studio Apartments near Interstate 95 and Broward Road.<\/p>\n
Around 10:57 p.m. Thursday, JSO said a witness alerted them to a Black male between the ages of 20-30 unconscious and unresponsive in the complex\u2019s courtyard near building number 5.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n The victim was taken to the hospital, where doctors discovered he was shot in his chest. They tried to save him, but he died.<\/p>\n At the time of this article\u2019s publication, the victim\u2019s name, or suspect information, has not been confirmed by JSO.<\/p>\n Neighbors provided Action News Jax reporter Zion Decoteau with the name of a man who lived or was visiting a relative inside the apartment police were searching. The visual description they gave of him matched JSO\u2019s victim description. <\/p>\n Decoteau also observed multiple people on social media saying \u201cRIP\u201d and tagging the account of a man whose name matched the name provided by a person identifying themself as family friend of the supposed victim. <\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n Resident Gordon Lamont said he has a good relationship with his neighbor, even remembering the last time he saw the man next door. <\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s like my son,\u201d Lamont said. \u201cWhen I came out to dump my garbage, his door was wide open. I didn\u2019t hear nothing so I seen his car over there.\u201d<\/p>\n The man from the Bronx wearing a shirt from Brooklyn said he left the Big Apple for Jacksonville \u2013 ironically to escape violence. <\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n \u201cI was tired of the gunshots, can\u2019t sleep at night,\u201d Lamont said. \u201cNew York City, I probably would\u2019ve been safer there than I am here.\u201d<\/p>\n Detectives are trying to get surveillance video and are talking to witnesses in the apartment complex.<\/p>\n If you know anything, contact JSO at 904-630-0500 or Crime Stoppers at 1-866-845-TIPS.<\/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 is investigating a deadly shooting that happened on the Northside at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[982,643,140900,140898,140897,140896,98338,13338,58155,1292,140899,5085,969,74613,116,118,117,6458,12814,1872,634,66802,646,32258,66799,66805],"class_list":["post-343622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-action_news","tag-action_news_jack","tag-big_apple","tag-breakwater","tag-breakwater_studio","tag-breakwater_studio_apartments","tag-bronx","tag-brooklyn","tag-broward_road","tag-facebook","tag-gordon_lamont","tag-i-95","tag-jack","tag-jack_zion_dekoto","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-jacksonville_sheriffs_office","tag-jfrd","tag-jso","tag-local","tag-new_york_city","tag-phil","tag-uf_health","tag-zion","tag-zion_dekoto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343622","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=343622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}