{"id":99992,"date":"2025-12-30T14:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T14:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/99992\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T14:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T14:08:09","slug":"jacksonville-officer-shoots-gunman-in-the-head-17th-police-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/99992\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville officer shoots gunman in the head, 17th police shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/details-finally-released-jso-shooting-201853402.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Jacksonville police;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jacksonville police<\/a> shot and killed a man they said fought an officer during an arrest and had a gun. It was the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/football-helmet-knife-hammer-shotgun-131408014.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Sheriff&#039;s Office&#039;s 17th shooting;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sheriff&#8217;s Office&#8217;s 17th shooting<\/a> with two days left in the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It began about 6:30 p.m. Dec. 29 with a task force doing surveillance\u00a0at a home on Ponce Boulevard near New Berlin Road for\u00a0a suspect,\u00a0William Lowe,\u00a0who had\u00a0warrants\u00a0for\u00a0a stolen car and several business burglaries.\u00a0He could be\u00a0seen\u00a0peeking outside and after about an hour got into a vehicle that arrived, Chief Alan Parker said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As Lowe and the driver pulled out of the driveway, the officers stopped the\u00a0car and took\u00a0Lowe into\u00a0into\u00a0custody.\u00a0But\u00a0driver did not comply\u00a0and\u00a0wouldn\u2019t\u00a0turn the car off when another officer tried to detain him, Parker said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cAs he\u2019s getting him out of the car, that suspect begins to fight,\u201d\u00a0the chief said. \u201cThey fight\u00a0pretty hard, they go to the ground, and during the altercation that suspect produces a handgun, and the officer was\u00a0luckily\u00a0able to shoot him in the head\u00a0himself with his own handgun\u00a0and end the threat\u00a0at that time.\u00a0That suspect\u00a0did not survive his injury.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He said the officer could be heard on video yelling, \u201cGun, gun,\u00a0he\u2019s got a gun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Sheriff&#8217;s Office has\u00a0not\u00a0identified\u00a0the driver yet but said Officer\u00a0Zachary Jennings fired the shot.\u00a0It was his first police shooting in his eight years with the Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Of the 17 suspects shot by Jacksonville police this year, 11 died. It&#8217;s the most since 2008 when officers shot 28 suspects, 14 fatally, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacksonville.com\/staff\/5514642002\/scott-butler\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Times-Union records;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Times-Union records<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally appeared on Florida Times-Union: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacksonville.com\/story\/news\/crime\/2025\/12\/30\/jacksonville-police-shoot-armed-man-in-the-head-for-17th-jso-shooting\/87957078007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Jacksonville police shoot armed man in the head for 17th JSO shooting;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Jacksonville police shoot armed man in the head for 17th JSO shooting<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jacksonville police shot and killed a man they said fought an officer during an arrest and had a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[22012,116,118,117,45704,52510],"class_list":{"0":"post-99992","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-alan-parker","9":"tag-jacksonville","10":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","11":"tag-jacksonville-news","12":"tag-sheriff39s-office","13":"tag-william-lowe"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99992","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=99992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}