Police: Man stabbed several times in head, neck on Edgewood Avenue West

DUVAL COUNTY, Fla. — Police are working to learn who violently attacked a man in a Lake Forest neighborhood.

Just before 11 a.m. Wednesday, officers responded to the 7800 block of Paul Revere Drive after receiving a report of a person bleeding from the head.

When they arrived, they found a man in his 60s with extensive stab wounds to his neck and head, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said.

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He was taken to a nearby hospital in critical condition, but JSO said he’s currently in stable condition.

The man told police he was stabbed Tuesday night along the 1700 block of Edgewood Avenue West.

JSO said someone saw him lying in a yard and called 911.

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Police are investigating how he got from where the attack happened to the yard along Paul Revere Drive.

We spoke to a woman who was here educating neighbors on COVID vaccines.

“We do get a lot of negative response (sic),” she said.

She didn’t want to share her identity out of fear, but told us she worries about potential dangers on the job.

“We could’ve easily walked into whatever the situation is,” she explained. “We just came up on this street and seen the taping off and we’re going door-to-door, so a lot of people don’t understand the risks that we take every day coming out here.”

She doesn’t feel unsafe here, though, and JSO says this was isolated.

“The area is usually a good area,” she said.

Action News Jax crime mapped the area and found 14 serious crimes happened within a half mile in the last month, including one homicide.

There is no suspect information at this time, but police believe it to be an isolated incident.

JSO is asking for tips from the public.

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