{"id":426403,"date":"2026-10-13T08:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T08:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/426403\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T08:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T08:56:11","slug":"eyewitness-video-shows-aftermath-of-woman-being-shot-by-officers-police-say-she-fired-at-them-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/426403\/","title":{"rendered":"Eyewitness video shows aftermath of woman being shot by officers, police say she fired at them first"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 The Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office shared pictures Monday of a bullet hole in an officer\u2019s car they say came from a woman who fired at officers on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">JSO also shared a picture of the gun they say she used. JSO said the officers returned fire and killed her.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/live-breaking\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/live-breaking\/\" target=\"_blank\">&gt;&gt;&gt; STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE &lt;&lt;&lt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">Action News Jax has obtained new eyewitness video recorded moments after the shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">\u201cThey just killed this girl. They just killed this girl on my street. If anybody got family out here on the Northside off of Dunn and Mar Vic, they just killed this girl,\u201d a woman can be heard saying on the video she recorded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">It was recorded Sunday on the Northside. Action News Jax\u2019s Zion Decoteau spoke to the eyewitness who recorded that video.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">Orange marks the spot on the corner of Biscayne and Mar Vic where JSO shot and killed the woman who they say first shot at them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/news\/local\/jso-releases-images-suspects-gun-damaged-cruiser-after-fatal-officer-involved-shooting\/WKHZ3SFYZVGO3C2REJFJ2IHJPI\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/news\/local\/jso-releases-images-suspects-gun-damaged-cruiser-after-fatal-officer-involved-shooting\/WKHZ3SFYZVGO3C2REJFJ2IHJPI\/\">JSO releases images of suspect\u2019s gun and damaged cruiser after fatal officer-involved shooting<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">We spoke to the woman, who did not want to be identified. She said that she did not see the woman holding a gun, and she questions whether JSO could have de-escalated the situation without it leading to her death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">\u201cA bunch of just like a bunch of automatic weapons and you could see like the dust and stuff coming from her,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">\u201cYou saw her getting shot?\u201d Decoteau asked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">\u201cThat\u2019s what I\u2019m saying!\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">That neighbor also provided audio from her doorbell camera which captured the sound of shots being fired and witnesses screaming.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/news\/local\/jso-scene-an-officer-involved-shooting-jacksonvilles-northside\/FEY22QDN3ZGPDE4RY7G4DGIVIQ\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/news\/local\/jso-scene-an-officer-involved-shooting-jacksonvilles-northside\/FEY22QDN3ZGPDE4RY7G4DGIVIQ\/\">Jacksonville police fatally shoot woman after she fires at officers, sheriff\u2019s office says<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">The shooting happened within 12 minutes of officers arriving on scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">Moments later, the woman\u2019s body was lying on the corner pavement, in her pajamas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">Police say the woman was waving a gun.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">JSO said three officers followed behind her for a quarter of a mile down a local road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">They shouted at the suspect to show her hands while another officer drove beside them for cover.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">[DOWNLOAD: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/mobile-apps\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">\u201cI didn\u2019t see her with the gun at that point. She was just backing up down the street with her hand in her purse and he had the shotgun out and then she started, like, going backwards,\u201d the witness said. \u201cTelling them \u2018back up, leave me alone.\u2019 Then he was just like \u2018if she shoots somebody light her a** up.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">But police say the suspect then pulled out a gun and shot at their police car, hitting the driver\u2019s side door.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">JSO fired back and she was pronounced dead on scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">[SIGN UP: <a href=\"https:\/\/membercenter.actionnewsjax.com\/newsletters\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">\u201cWhether she had the gun in her hand or not, I\u2019m not sure I couldn\u2019t see that as far as what she had in her hand. But I just seen her, put her hands up,\u201d the witness said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">JSO said that this was the third call they\u2019ve received about this woman in two days after they say she was walking around the neighborhood waving a gun.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">JSO has not released the name of the woman shot. It will not release the name of the officers involved, citing a \u201cprivacy law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/mobile-apps\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/mobile-apps\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/video\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n<p>Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 The Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office shared pictures Monday of a bullet hole in an officer\u2019s car&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5226,982,643,158045,78856,116,118,117,6458,1872,634,167676,167677,58156,66799,66805],"class_list":["post-426403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-5226","tag-action_news","tag-action_news_jack","tag-biscayne","tag-dunn","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-jacksonville_sheriffs_office","tag-jso","tag-local","tag-mark_vick","tag-marvick","tag-north_jacksonville","tag-zion","tag-zion_dekoto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426403","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=426403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}