A man was shot and killed after police say he pulled out a gun and shot at an officer on Jacksonville’s Westside on Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n
The officer put out a call of “shots fired” on his radio around 3:30 p.m., Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office Chief of Investigations Mike Paul said.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n The officer was at a “stop station” in the 1700 block of West Beaver Street near Stockton Street, Paul said.<\/p>\n JSO said<\/a> previously that stop stations are places in the community that offer officers “a secure space to take a quick break before heading back out to protect and serve the community” and “are not open to the public.”<\/p>\n The officer was in his parked car, seated in his vehicle, Paul said. A man, later identified as 45-year-old Christopher Ford, approached the officer’s vehicle.<\/p>\n Paul said the interaction between Ford and the officer was a short conversation. During this time, Ford pulled out a handgun and started walking backwards, Paul said.<\/p>\n The officer pulled out his gun and then the suspect fired his weapon, missed the officer, and hit the stop station, Paul said.<\/p>\n The officer fired his weapon and hit Ford, who was taken into custody and was given aid by the officer.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n Ford was taken to UF Health Jacksonville, where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n Paul said Ford was held under Florida’s Baker Act in February and has no local criminal history.<\/p>\n Paul said the JSO Cold Case Unit will continue to investigate the shooting. The officer activated his body-worn camera, but since the interaction was so quick, it may not have captured the whole thing, Paul said.<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>]<\/p>\n This is the second officer-involved shooting the officer has been involved in and he is not being identified at this time due to Marsy’s Law, Paul said.<\/p>\n The officer will be placed on administrative leave, which is standard JSO policy.<\/p>\n Paul said this is the 14th officer-involved shooting for JSO this year.<\/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 was shot and killed after police say he pulled out a gun and shot at an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[151267,761,116,118,117,151266],"class_list":["post-375169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-christopher-ford","tag-free-action-news-jax","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-mike-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375169","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=375169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}