‘It was my worst nightmare’: Father speaks after son shot at Jacksonville high school football game

The first week of high school football season ended in gunfire Friday night at Lonnie C. Miller Sr. Regional Park in Northwest Jacksonville and for one father, the nightmare began not at the park, but with a knock at his front door. James Crews learned his 20-year-old son, Zakyri, had been shot when a parent came to the family’s home to deliver the news. “The parent had came to the house and notified us that there was an incident. It was a shooting that involved my son. We go to Shands, and this is where we’re at,” Crews told News4JAX reporter Ashley French on Saturday. Zakyri Crews was one of two people wounded when gunfire broke out near a game between Young Kids Academy and Joshua Christian Academy. A 19-year-old woman was also struck in the leg. Both were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office.