As JSO officers were investigating a separate report at the Scottish Inn, they watched a vehicle pull into the parking lot and saw a man on foot shoot at it.
It was an 'unintentional' gunshot by Jacksonville police that killed knife-wielding suspect on July 30"All three officers fired with their issued handguns and strike the suspect, who goes down right there in the parking lot," Kee said.
He said the people inside the car"didn't even realize they'd been shot at." It was unknown whether they knew the suspect.The suspect is the ninth person shot by Jacksonville police this year, Times-Union records show. Six were killed. All last year there were six people shot by officers, three of whom died. In 2020, Jacksonville police shot 14 suspects with eight fatal and one other self-inflicted.
Saturday's shooting follow Wednesday's when Sheriff's Office narcotics detectives shot and killed a man suspected in a fentanyl-overdose death.
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