{"id":427641,"date":"2026-10-14T14:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T14:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/427641\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T14:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T14:20:08","slug":"police-jacksonville-man-dies-after-accidentally-shooting-himself-in-the-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/427641\/","title":{"rendered":"POLICE: Jacksonville man dies after accidentally shooting himself in the head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">The above video is our WITN+ livestream and may not reflect the content in this story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; Police say a man is dead after he accidentally shot himself earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">It happened at 123-A Sanders Street in Jacksonville on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officers found Jordan Joines in the front yard with a gunshot wound to his head. The 21-year-old was pronounced dead at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He accidentally shot himself while demonstrating the gun\u2019s mechanics to several people, according to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The department is still investigating.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WITN. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The above video is our WITN+ livestream and may not reflect the content in this story. JACKSONVILLE, N.C.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117,4481,1854,4480],"class_list":["post-427641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-nc","tag-north-carolina","tag-witn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427641","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=427641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}