JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 A teenage boy was hospitalized with a gunshot wound after police say another person accidentally discharged a firearm inside a Jacksonville apartment.<\/p>\n
Officers responded to a local hospital around 10:30 p.m. Saturday after a mid-teen boy arrived with a gunshot wound, according to Sgt. J. Johnson of the Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office Robbery and Violent Crime Unit. <\/p>\n
The boy\u2019s injuries are considered non-life-threatening, and he is cooperating with investigators.<\/p>\n
The Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office said a preliminary investigation found the boy was in a back bedroom of an apartment handling a firearm when he dropped it. Another person inside the apartment picked up the weapon, and it discharged, striking him in the buttocks.<\/p>\n
The boy then called a family member, who drove him to the hospital, police said.<\/p>\n
Investigators believe the shooting was an isolated incident and does not pose a threat to the community.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information is asked to call the Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office at 904-630-0500, email JSOCrimeTips@jaxsheriff.org<\/a>, or contact Crime Stoppers at 1-866-845-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 teenage boy was hospitalized with a gunshot wound after police say another person accidentally…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-412048","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\/412048","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=412048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}