JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office shared pictures Monday of a bullet hole in an officer’s car they say came from a woman who fired at officers on Sunday.
JSO also shared a picture of the gun they say she used. JSO said the officers returned fire and killed her.
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Action News Jax has obtained new eyewitness video recorded moments after the shooting.
“They just killed this girl. They just killed this girl on my street. If anybody got family out here on the Northside off of Dunn and Mar Vic, they just killed this girl,” a woman can be heard saying on the video she recorded.
It was recorded Sunday on the Northside. Action News Jax’s Zion Decoteau spoke to the eyewitness who recorded that video.
Orange marks the spot on the corner of Biscayne and Mar Vic where JSO shot and killed the woman who they say first shot at them.
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We spoke to the woman, who did not want to be identified. She said that she did not see the woman holding a gun, and she questions whether JSO could have de-escalated the situation without it leading to her death.
“A bunch of just like a bunch of automatic weapons and you could see like the dust and stuff coming from her,” she said.
“You saw her getting shot?” Decoteau asked.
“That’s what I’m saying!” she said.
That neighbor also provided audio from her doorbell camera which captured the sound of shots being fired and witnesses screaming.
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The shooting happened within 12 minutes of officers arriving on scene.
Moments later, the woman’s body was lying on the corner pavement, in her pajamas.
Police say the woman was waving a gun.
JSO said three officers followed behind her for a quarter of a mile down a local road.
They shouted at the suspect to show her hands while another officer drove beside them for cover.
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“I didn’t see her with the gun at that point. She was just backing up down the street with her hand in her purse and he had the shotgun out and then she started, like, going backwards,” the witness said. “Telling them ‘back up, leave me alone.’ Then he was just like ‘if she shoots somebody light her a** up.’”
But police say the suspect then pulled out a gun and shot at their police car, hitting the driver’s side door.
JSO fired back and she was pronounced dead on scene.
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“Whether she had the gun in her hand or not, I’m not sure I couldn’t see that as far as what she had in her hand. But I just seen her, put her hands up,” the witness said.
JSO said that this was the third call they’ve received about this woman in two days after they say she was walking around the neighborhood waving a gun.
JSO has not released the name of the woman shot. It will not release the name of the officers involved, citing a “privacy law.”
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