An investigation is ongoing after an accidental shooting in Jacksonville Saturday night left a male teenager injured.<\/p>\n
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 On Saturday around 10:30 p.m., Jacksonville sheriff’s officers responded to a local hospital in reference to someone being shot.<\/p>\n
Upon arrival, officers found a teenage boy suffering from a gunshot wound to his buttocks. The victim was taken by a family member to a local area hospital where his injuries were listed as non-life threatening.<\/p>\n
According to JSO, the preliminary investigation revealed the victim was in a back bedroom of an apartment when he was handling a firearm. The victim dropped the firearm, and the firearm was picked up by another individual inside the apartment.<\/p>\n
The individual that picked up the firearm then accidentally shot it, striking the victim in the buttocks. The victim then contacted a family member, who responded to the home and drove the victim to a local area hospital.<\/p>\n
At this time, investigators believe this to be an isolated incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An investigation is ongoing after an accidental shooting in Jacksonville Saturday night left a male teenager injured. JACKSONVILLE,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-414503","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\/414503","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=414503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}