{"id":431219,"date":"2026-10-18T12:42:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T12:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/431219\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T12:42:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T12:42:19","slug":"juvenile-shot-in-chest-after-being-followed-from-regency-area-jso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/431219\/","title":{"rendered":"Juvenile shot in chest after being followed from Regency area: JSO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 A juvenile boy was shot in the chest early Sunday after an argument involving two groups continued from the Regency area to Mill Creek Road, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Officers responded around 1:40 a.m. to the 700 block of Mill Creek Road. Witnesses told officers the victim had been driven to a hospital, where police found him with a single gunshot wound. His injury was listed as non-life-threatening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">JSO said the victim and friends had been hanging out near Regency mall when two SUVs arrived and their occupants began arguing with the group. The victim and his friends left, but the SUVs followed them to a business off Mill Creek Road. The argument continued there, and a suspect pulled out a gun and shot the boy, investigators said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">The SUVs were described as one white and one red. JSO said the groups were not known to each other. No suspect description was provided.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Detectives are interviewing witnesses, seeking surveillance video and processing the scene for evidence. Anyone with information can call JSO at 904-630-0500, email <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/news\/local\/2026\/10\/18\/juvenile-shot-in-chest-after-being-followed-from-regency-area-jso\/mailto:JSOCRIMETIPS@JAXSHERIFF.ORG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">JSOCRIMETIPS@JAXSHERIFF.ORG<\/a> or contact Crime Stoppers at 1-866-845-TIPS.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by WJXT News4JAX &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 A juvenile boy was shot in the chest early Sunday after an argument involving two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117,1415],"class_list":["post-431219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-jacksonville-sheriffs-office"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431219","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=431219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}