A man was found shot on the property of a house on West 13th Street near Fairfax Street in Jacksonville’s Durkeeville area shortly after midnight Monday morning. Responding officers found him with an apparent gunshot wound, and he died at the scene.
According to News4JAX, investigators detained several people for questioning after the shooting. As reported by actionnewsjax.com, police were called to the 1800 block of West 13th Street at about 12:30 a.m. after a report of a person shot, and officers detained multiple people once they arrived.
Investigators believe everyone involved in the shooting is accounted for, police said. They also said the shooter and the victim knew each other, though how the two were connected remains unclear, according to investigators.
Scene Remained Active for Hours
The crime scene stayed active past 5:30 a.m. as detectives continued investigating and waited on a search warrant, per the same account. No further details about the victim’s identity, the shooter’s identity, or a motive have been released.
JSO is asking anyone with information to call 904-630-0500, or to contact Crime Stoppers at 866-845-TIPS.
A Pattern of Violence in the Same Corridor
This is not the first deadly shooting reported in the Durkeeville area in recent memory. In a separate incident, one man was killed and another critically injured when a large group of people gathered near West 11th Street and Fairfax Street and someone opened fire, the station reported. Two men were struck in that shooting — one died at the scene, and the other was taken to UF Health with life-threatening injuries. Those victims were between 20 and 30 years old.
Just days earlier, JSO investigated another shooting in the 1900 block of West 13th Street on Jacksonville’s Westside, in which a man in his late 30s was shot in the leg during what investigators described as a domestic dispute. Police said the victim and suspect were inside a home arguing when the shooting happened, and that everyone involved had been detained. The man’s injuries were not considered life-threatening.
JSO maintains an open-data portal tracking homicide and clearance figures reported to the National Incident Based Reporting System, though the department has not released specific numbers tied to this case. No arrests or charges connected to Monday’s shooting have been confirmed.
