JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – As a man lay dying in the parking lot of the McDonald's restaurant on Baymeadows Road Monday afternoon, police pursued a fleeing suspect to the other side of town.
When the man officers were chasing got out and ran through a neighborhood in northwest Jacksonville, shots were fired before a police dog caught up with the man and he was taken into custody.
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Police have yet to release the identity of the victim, but the victim's family identified him as 45-year-old Raynold Orelus, a Haitian immigrant. Channel 4 learned that he was the restaurant's maintenance worker who was trying to help when his boss was robbed while walking to her car with a deposit bag just before 2 p.m.
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"(He) came to help her and they shot him in the chest," said Mia Hall, the wife of another McDonald's employee.
Police responding to the shooting spotted a silver car matching the description of one leaving the scene and pursued it north on Interstate 95. The car exited at Eighth Street and sped through several neighborhoods before stopping near West Ninth Street near Myrtle Avenue.
During a foot chase that followed, shots were fired before a police dog caught up with the suspect, leading to his arrest.
Police said that who fired shots during the pursuit was still under investigation, but no one was hit by the gunfire.
Police said both the suspect and a police officer received minor injuries in the chase, but neither needed to be hospitalized.
Stanton College Preparatory School -- four blocks away from the foot chase -- was placed on lockdown until they received confirmation that the suspect was in custody.