{"id":695875,"date":"2026-06-10T15:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T15:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/695875\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T15:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T15:52:08","slug":"jso-confirms-mandarin-high-football-player-critically-injured-in-accidental-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/695875\/","title":{"rendered":"JSO confirms Mandarin High football player critically injured in &#8216;accidental shooting&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 A Mandarin High School football player was injured Saturday in what the Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office is investigating as an \u201caccidental shooting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">The family of 17-year-old Mikah Howell is asking for prayers and support after he suffered a traumatic brain injury in a shooting in the Inwood Terrace neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Howell, who remains in critical condition, is described as an honor roll student with scholarship offers to play football in college.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/support-mikah-howells-recovery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/support-mikah-howells-recovery\">His family launched a GoFundMe<\/a> to help pay for medical and living expenses as he recovers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">\u201cHis mother is by his side in intensive care, unable to work as she focuses on Mikah\u2019s recovery,\u201d the GoFundMe reads. \u201cThe uncertainty and emotional toll are immense, and the financial strain is growing as medical bills and living expenses accumulate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">News4JAX obtained the incident report from the shooting, but it does not contain details about what happened, and the Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office did not hold a media briefing following the shooting. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">At this time, it is still unclear whether any arrests have been made. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by WJXT News4JAX &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 A Mandarin High School football player was injured Saturday in what the Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":695876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,1075,451,14310,301547,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-695875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-community","tag-headlines","tag-jacksonville","tag-mandarin-high-school","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695875","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=695875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/695876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}