A juvenile boy was shot in the chest early Sunday after an argument that followed him and his friends from the Regency Mall area to a nearby business, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said.<\/p>\n
Officers responded around 1:40 a.m. to the 700 block of Mill Creek Road on reports of a person shot, Sgt. Sembach of JSO’s Robbery and Violent Crime Unit said. Witnesses reportedly told officers the victim had been driven to a local hospital.<\/p>\n
Officers then found the victim at the hospital with a single gunshot wound to the chest. JSO said his injury is listed as non-life-threatening.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n It is believed the victim and his friends were hanging out near Regency Mall when two SUVs pulled up and their occupants began arguing with them, Sembach said.<\/p>\n The victim and his friends left but were followed to a business off Mill Creek Road, where the argument continued until a suspect in an SUV pulled out a firearm and shot the victim.<\/p>\n Both suspect vehicles were SUVs, one white and one red. The two groups did not know each other, Sembach said.<\/p>\n No additional suspect information has been provided at this time.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n “The community’s assistance is critical in this investigation,” Sembach said.<\/p>\n Anyone with information is asked to call the sheriff’s office at 904-630-0500 or email JSOCRIMETIPS@JAXSHERIFF.ORG<\/a>. Tips can also be submitted to Crime Stoppers at 1-866-845-TIPS.<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>]<\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A juvenile boy was shot in the chest early Sunday after an argument that followed him and his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-431261","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\/431261","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=431261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}