Clay County

Reports: Adults chased teen through Orange Park Mall, ‘jumped’ him outside

ORANGE PARK, Fla. — Action News Jax is learning new details in what led to three people being arrested on child abuse charges, after an incident at the Orange Park Mall that forced hundreds of panicked people into the parking lot.

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We first told you Monday that two men and a woman -- Derrick Mack, 20; Ivan Boyd, 43; and Shannon Thompson, 40 -- are now facing child abuse charges, according to Clay County Sheriff’s Office arrest reports.

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The reports we obtained that day were heavily redacted, because the victim is under 18 and the incident is still under investigation. On Wednesday, we obtained reports from Clerk of Court records, which had fewer portions redacted than the copies we obtained on Monday.

Here are details of what happened, according to the reports:

The victim said he and a friend approached two other boys at Smoothie King. The victim said his friend asked one of the boys, later found to be Boyd and Thompson’s son, to buy him something.

Boyd and Thompson’s son agreed to buy the boy a smoothie and pulled money from his pocket. The victim said that the friend he was with said to Boyd and Thompson’s son, “he should have robbed him just now” and “lifted his shirt up slightly revealing what he thought was a gun,” the report said.

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The victim told police he couldn’t tell if it was actually a gun or just something black in his friend’s waistband.

Boyd and Thompson’s son then told his parents that someone threatened to rob him and flashed a gun, according to the reports.

Boyd asked Mack to pick up his son and his friend from the mall. Boyd, Thompson, their son and Mack went to the mall to find the person who their son accused of threatening him.

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Deputies say security cameras show Boyd, Thompson and Mack chasing the victim through the mall and then the suspects “jumped” the victim, according to the report.

This is what deputies observed of the altercation on security footage, according to the report:

  • Mack pushes the victim through the mall. Thompson then walked up to the victim and slapped him on the left side of his face.
  • Mack then pushes the victim out of the mall exit near AMC Theaters. The victim tries to get away when Boyd and Thompson’s son tackles the victim and starts to punch him.
  • While the victim is on the ground, Boyd comes up and punches the victim, after which the victim manages to get away.

Deputies went to Boyd and Thompson’s house to make contact with them, as well as Mack and their son.

Boyd told deputies that they “made contact with the boy but had no part in the physical altercation,” the report said.

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Thompson told deputies “she poked the victim in the back of the head, stating ‘why did you rob my son?’” The deputy told her that the incident was caught on security camera and she said, “I did not think I hit that baby that hard.”

Mack told deputies the victim tried to run away, but he caught up with him at Hollister in the mall and told deputies, “I snatched that boy up like his father should have.”

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Mack also told deputies when he got the victim outside, he told Boyd and Thompson’s son to “go ahead and fight him.”

A Department of Juvenile Justice officer advised deputies that Boyd and Thompson’s son qualified for a juvenile civil citation, so he was issued one and released to his grandmother, the report said.

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