JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office is investigating after someone was struck multiple times by gunfire Wednesday afternoon in the Sherwood Forest neighborhood.
According to Lt. Paris, with the Sheriff’s Office, police were called to the scene on Priory Avenue at about 3 p.m. The man shot was said to be in serious condition.
The man was said to be in his late 20s.
A silver car that had been riddled with bullets was spotted near crime scene.
Several people we spoke with were home when they heard the gunshots.
“It lasted for about 12 seconds, and that’s a long time,” one woman told News4JAX.
Reginald Rainey heard the gunshots and says he did his best to take cover. He said he heard dozens of gunshots.
“About 35 or 40,” Rainey said.
Home security salesperson Daniel Ocampo was several blocks over talking to a customer and was stunned when he heard the gunfire.
“We were both talking in mid-conversation when we stopped and looked in that direction,” Ocampo said.
A woman who was at home and heard the gunfire says her young son spoke with police and told them he saw a man running from the scene right after the shooting stopped. It’s unclear if that man was the shooter or someone taking cover.
According to a JSO crime map, which was adjusted to show reported crimes within a half-mile radius from the location of Wednesday afternoon’s shooting, there was a murder committed right around the corner on Roanoke Avenue last week.
In that case, 44-year-old Darnell Wilson was found shot to death inside his home. Wilson was a father of three.
The crime map shows that two days before Wilson’s murder, shots were fired into an occupied home on Norfolk Blvd. The map also shows that on Tuesday, there was a report of a battery on a first responder.
The rest of the crimes, which also were reported within the past four weeks, were thefts.
The Sheriff’s Office asked anyone with information that could help the investigation to call police at 904-630-0500 or Crime Stoppers at 1-866-845-TIPS.