JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – On Thursday night, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said a man, later identified as 62-year-old Jose Cabrera, was shot and killed by three of its officers following a domestic disturbance call in the Dinsmore area.
The incident marked the fifth officer-involved shooting in the city this year, including the second time that it ended with someone’s death.
Throughout all of last year, the agency was involved in 11 deadly officer-involved shootings and 17 overall.
Jan. 5 - Bartram Park
The first officer-involved shooting of the year also marked its first homicide.
According to police, officers were called to the Luxor Club Apartments on Egrets Nest Drive around 8:30 p.m. and learned that an argument had taken place between a husband and wife.
According to JSO, one caller said she heard a woman screaming. When she stepped outside to see what was going on, she said she saw a woman on top of a Tesla banging on the hood of the vehicle.
The woman then got off the car, and the man, 35-year-old Daniel Rodriguez, drove away before returning to the complex.
When officers went to approach Rodriguez, they said he pulled a firearm from his waistband, leading the JSO officers to fire at him. Despite efforts to render aid, Rodriguez died at the scene, JSO said.
Jan. 5 - Arlington
On the same night of the first incident, another officer-involved shooting took place in Arlington, when a man reportedly pointed a rifle at officers before barricading himself inside his home.
JSO said that when officers approached the house, they saw the man and told him to drop his rifle.
Police said the man followed orders and was taken into custody. However, the man’s father, Offero Manalon, 68, picked up the rifle that his son had dropped and began pointing it at officers.
That’s when three officers shot at him before he went back inside his home.
The SWAT team was called to the scene, which set off a three-hour standoff, police said. After gassing the residence, Manalon was taken into custody.
It was never revealed where Manalon was shot and no update has been given on the status of his condition.
Jan. 11 - Brentwood
Six days after the first two officer-involved shootings of the year, the third one took place in the Brentwood area when Samuel Deondre Cook, 35, walked up to an unmarked police car and pointed a gun at two officers who were inside.
“He walked up to a car that was occupied, not knowing who was in it, and pointed a gun at the individuals inside,” JSO Chief Michael Paul said at a briefing of the incident.
The two officers shot at Cook from inside the car and managed to exit the vehicle as Cook ran away from them while continuing to shoot.
A chase ensued for about two blocks before police were able to take Cook into custody.
The incident prompted Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters to warn the community about the dangers of pulling guns on police officers.
“I don’t think anyone should walk up to a car and point a gun inside the vehicle. When you do that, you are putting yourself in grave danger,” Waters said. “If it is the police, or anyone else of that matter, this is America, citizens have the right to bear arms. You might pull a gun on a citizen and get shot for doing that.”
Waters also emphasized that officer-involved shootings are never easy and called it a traumatic experience for law enforcement.
“They take administrative leave, they take time off, they see doctors before they come back to work, it’s an entire process,” Waters said. “For one, we aren’t sociopaths; we’re not crazy people. We just want to serve our community, and that’s what they are doing, and sometimes they find themselves in tough situations.”
Feb. 11 - Oceanway
One month after the previous incident, a man, who was seen in a stolen vehicle before he allegedly ran away from police, was killed when he pulled out a handgun during the foot chase with police, JSO said.
The agency added that one of its officers attempted to use his Taser twice during the chase, but it wasn’t made clear if either attempt connected.
The man -- who ran through several backyards and jumped fences during the chase -- then pulled out a handgun, and the two officers who were chasing him fired multiple shots, JSO said.
“Enough (shots) to end the threat,” Undersheriff Shawn Coarsey said during a briefing about the officer-involved shooting.
Feb. 13 - Dinsmore
On Thursday night, Jose Cabrera, 62, was shot after officers demanded he get out of his car, which was parked outside a home on Fox Tail Lane, and he grabbed a knife as he got out, JSO said.
“He came out of the vehicle and started aggressively approaching those officers, yelling something that they were going to have to shoot him,” Coarsey said during a news briefing early Friday.
Coarsey said the incident began around 10:10 p.m. when officers received reports of a domestic disturbance.
According to Coarsey, the three officers involved were new to the job, and this was their first night out on their own without a veteran training officer with them.
The three officers were identified as W. Morris, G. Griffis and R. Rhoden. None of the officers was injured in the incident.
Sheriff T.K. Waters said the officers’ experience level had nothing to do with their response. He added that the officers were “very well trained” and responded as they did because they saw the same threat.
“When you are advancing toward a police officer holding a knife, the result is going to end up pretty much like this,” Waters said. “It’s concerning, of course, when we run into these types of situations, but they are trained professionals to take care of themselves, take care of the community, and they’re going to do just that.”
The State Attorney’s Office is currently investigating all five shootings involving JSO in 2026. Once the investigations are complete, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office will conduct its own investigations.