A highway accident of Saturday evening Beach Boulevard ended with two Jacksonville law enforcement officials who shot and killed a 69 -year -old man.
The weird accident started round 18:00 when the police responded to a highway accident with accidents on the intersection of Beach Boulevard and I-295, mentioned the top of Jso of Jso throughout a information briefing.
Witnesses reported to the police {that a} Toyota Camry who turns from the lanes within the east route of Beach Boulevard on the I-295 entrance ramp within the north route was hit by an SUV within the west route whose driver had made a purple gentle run.
A girl who was driving the automobile instructed the police that after the automobiles collided, regarded on the man within the SUV and noticed him give it a “thumb up” earlier than he got here out of the automobile and began wandering.
She, collectively along with her 7 and 10 -year -old youngsters, acquired slight wounds within the accident, mentioned the police and have been handled on the scene.
But the person started to make statements that “would have shot himself,” Parker mentioned to rescue groups and one other witness instructed the police.
The officers verified that the person had a gun and freed the speedy areas of the accident.
After 20 minutes of negotiation with the person – who refused to offer her identify – the police mentioned {that a} bicycle owner crossed the scene and when the person with the gun nonetheless turned to the bicycle owner, “the officers needed to contain him,” Parker mentioned.
The man, whose identify was not launched pending notification of the subsequent kinfolk, was taken to a neighborhood hospital, the place he died.
The two officers who fired the person to dying have been recognized as Greg Hernandez, a 6 -year veteran of the pressure, and Z. Slowwski, a 4.5 -year -old veteran, mentioned Alan. It was the primary taking pictures concerned in official for every.
The taking pictures is the second of this week and third this month that concerned a police officer with the workplace of Jacksonville sheriff.
On July 15, Jacksonville police fired and killed a person who mentioned was attacking a pregnant lady who was attempting to guard her son from the suspicion in an accident in Block 12500 by Brahma Bull Circle close to New Berlin Road. After utilizing the tasers a number of occasions on suspicion, the police fired man dying.
On July 9, the agent Luis Mercado, a JSO’s 4 -year veteran, was hit within the leg throughout a gunfight with a suspicion of theft at Soutel Drive close to Norfolk Boulevard. The 20 -year -old suspicion was critically injured within the conflict and died in a neighborhood hospital.
Jacksonville Cruisert Block Beach Boulevard Sheriff’s Sheriff Police Saturday nineteenth July 2025, following a taking pictures concerned in official.
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This yr marks the twelfth taking pictures of the Sheriff Office. Six have been deadly. Last yr he had a complete of eight, with three deadly, in response to the data of the Florida Times-Union.
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