JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Police are searching for a gunman who shot and killed a man believed to be trying to stop a robbery of a Westside lumber yard Tuesday evening.
Christopher Aligada, 40, of Orange Park, died after the shooting at the Builders First Source on Roosevelt Boulevard.
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Homicide investigators said the robber shot Aligada, a manager at the business, when he walked in as another employee was being held at gunpoint just before 9 p.m.
According to the police report, the gunman fired at least twice, then stole the first employee's SUV.
"I'm sure he was trying to get help for the guys that were with," Aligada's sister-in-law, Becky Aligada said Wednesday.
The suspect is described as a muscular black man about 20 years old standing about 6 feet high. He was wearing a white tank top, blue short sand white tennis shoes. He left the scene in a 1992 maroon GMC Yukon with Florida license tag W97DHJ.
Anyone with any information about the gunman or the robbery is asked to call the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office at (904) 630-0500.