JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A man is dead after a shooting in the Sherwood Forest neighborhood, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office.
Officers responded to calls about gunshots on Bristol Avenue around 8:20 p.m. Monday. They found a man who had been shot inside a home.
Norma Davila says when she got home last night, she saw police—an unusual sight on this street.
“It’s nice and quiet,” Davila said. “We don’t really have you know...a lot of neighbors, a lot of older people. People keep to themselves.”
Davila continued, “I saw three patrol cars about two or three houses down and they looked like they were going to people’s houses and whatnot.”
Then, she said, it looked like the body had been found. “The body I’m assuming, and that’s when they ran back across the yard and then that’s when the other ones starting pulling up and they roped everything off”
This comes after a violent few weeks in Jacksonville.
On May 1, Tayda Smith, a mother of four, was killed at a gas pump on Lem Turner Road. A witness told News4JAX they heard 50 to 70 shots fired. Her family says they think she was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Two other people were also killed that weekend.
AJ Jordan is with community advocacy group MAD DADS. “It will stop when the community wants wanted to stop. I mean, there’s always gonna be some people in the community that just want to do harm, and be evil,” Jordan said. “But the community can send a message by telling what they know.”
According to News4JAX’s records, homicides and murders are up so far this year in Jacksonville, with 59 homicides and 49 murders compared to 52 homicides and 40 murders at this time last year.
Neighbors said no one lived in the home where the body was found.
Last we heard from JSO Tuesday morning, they were still working to identify the man whose body was found.
JSO is asking anyone with information to come forward and call the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office non-emergency number at (904) 630-0500 or Crime Stoppers at (866) 845 -TIPS.