{"id":540943,"date":"2026-03-23T19:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T19:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/540943\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T19:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T19:19:08","slug":"man-who-lives-near-site-of-deadly-road-rage-shootout-says-he-recognized-victim-from-his-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/540943\/","title":{"rendered":"Man who lives near site of deadly road-rage shootout says he recognized victim from his neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 After a man was killed Sunday night in what police described as a road-rage shootout on Edgewood Avenue West and I-95, neighbors shared their concerns with News4JAX about the issues brought into their area by those who don\u2019t live there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">According to police, two drivers in a road-rage confrontation got out of their vehicles around 8:20 p.m. on the northbound ramp to I-95 off Edgewood Avenue and shot at each other.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">One driver died at the scene, and the other sped away from the Lake Forest area, leaving investigators with the Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office searching for a small silver SUV.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cWhen I came up to the store, I saw people up here saying one of their loved ones was up in the street dead,\u201d neighbor Mike Ross said, adding that he recognized the victim from his neighborhood. \u201cI used to see the guy up here a lot at the store. &#8230; Don\u2019t know him personally. \u2026 Very sad, because what I know he was married. I don\u2019t know if he was trying to go home or not.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Locals told News4JAX their neighborhoods are quiet, but because they\u2019re right by the interstate, thousands of cars pass through daily, many to get gas at the stations off the highway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">They say that\u2019s where problems come from.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cNot too much happens here with the neighborhood people.\u00a0 Most of these incidents are from people that don\u2019t even live in this area,\u201d Ross said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">No other vehicles were involved or affected during the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Police said this appears to be an isolated incident, but they must locate the driver of the SUV to continue their investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Authorities are urging anyone with information to contact the Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office at 904-630-0500.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by WJXT News4JAX &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 After a man was killed Sunday night in what police described as a road-rage shootout&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,14310,22264,3,2863,452,453],"class_list":["post-540943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-jacksonville","tag-jso","tag-news","tag-road-rage","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}