{"id":378095,"date":"2026-08-22T04:38:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T04:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/378095\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T04:38:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T04:38:34","slug":"man-in-life-threatening-condition-after-shooting-on-west-forsyth-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/378095\/","title":{"rendered":"Man in life-threatening condition after shooting on West Forsyth Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police respond to shooting on Forsyth St in downtown Jacksonville (News4JAX)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 The Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office says a man is fighting for his life after he was shot on West Forsyth Street in downtown Jacksonville Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Police say they were called to the 800 block of Forsyth Street just before 6 p.m. in reference to a shooting. When officers arrived, they found a man in his 20s suffering from a gunshot wound. Jacksonville Fire and Rescue transported him to a hospital in life-threatening condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">JSO detectives, the agency\u2019s Crime Scene Unit and the State Attorney\u2019s Office are investigating the incident. Police say they\u2019re working to obtain video surveillance and speak with anyone who may have witnessed this.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Anyone with information is urged to call JSO at (904) 630-0500 or contact JSO Crime Tips at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jaxsheriff.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.jaxsheriff.org\/\">jaxsheriff.org<\/a>. You can also contact Crime Stoppers anonymously at 1 (866) 845-TIPS.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 kfUEDb copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WJXT News4JAX &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police respond to shooting on Forsyth St in downtown Jacksonville (News4JAX) JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 The Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117,1415,215],"class_list":["post-378095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-jacksonville-sheriffs-office","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378095","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=378095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}