JACKSONVILLE, Onslow County \u2014 A 21-year-old man died after what Jacksonville police say was an accidental, self-inflicted shooting while he was demonstrating how a firearm worked.<\/p>\n
Jacksonville Police Department officers responded Monday, Oct. 12, to 123-A Sanders St. for a report of a shooting.<\/p>\n
When officers arrived, they found 21-year-old Jordan Joines in the front yard with a gunshot wound to the head.<\/p>\n
Joines was taken to Naval Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n
Police said their initial investigation found Joines accidentally shot himself while demonstrating the mechanics of the firearm to several people.<\/p>\n
Police said there is no threat to the community.<\/p>\n
The investigation remains active and ongoing.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information about the incident is asked to contact Detective A. DeBonis at 910-938-6418 or adebonis@jacksonvillenc.gov.<\/p>\n
Anonymous information can also be provided to Crime Stoppers at 910-938-3273. Crime Stoppers offers cash rewards of up to $5,000 for information determined to be valuable to law enforcement.<\/p>\n
Tips can also be submitted anonymously by texting TIP4CSJAX and a message to 274637.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Onslow County \u2014 A 21-year-old man died after what Jacksonville police say was an accidental, self-inflicted shooting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-427953","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\/427953","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=427953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}