JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 A man was killed in a shooting following an argument at a park on Moncrief Road, says the Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n
According to JSO, officers responded to Moncrief Road in reference to a shooting around 5:50 p.m. When officers arrived, they found a man suffering from gunshot wounds. The Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department responded to the scene and transported the victim to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n
JSO says they learned that there was a group at the park playing basketball. At one point, the victim and suspect began to argue, and the suspect produced a gun and shot the victim before leaving the scene. <\/p>\n
Multiple witnesses were detained at the scene, and a suspect was identified and taken into custody a short distance away from the scene.<\/p>\n
JSO says detectives with the JSO Homicide Unit and Crime Scene Unit are on scene collecting evidence, interviewing witnesses, and working to determine the circumstances that led up to this shooting.<\/p>\n
This is an ongoing investigation, and the sheriff\u2019s office is encouraging anyone with information who may have witnessed the incident or who has information related to this case to contact the Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office at 904-630-0500, by email atJSOtips@jaxsheriff.org<\/a>, or anonymously through Crime Stoppers at 866-845-Tips.<\/p>\n >>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/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 A man was killed in a shooting following an argument at a park on Moncrief…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[344,347,265,28,348,116,351,118,117,125081,349,215,350,346,345],"class_list":["post-402183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-action-news-jax","tag-cbs47","tag-crime","tag-florida","tag-fox30","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-fl","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-moncrief-road","tag-northeast-florida","tag-shooting","tag-southeast-georgia","tag-wfox","tag-wjax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402183","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=402183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}