DUVAL COUNTY, Fla. — The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office announced more information about an investigation into Wednesday's police-involved shooting.
JSO said 20-year-old Christopher Green was the man shot by undercover detectives on Jacksonville's Westside. JSO now says the suspect went to grab his handgun when officers fired eight times, hitting him three times.
This is different from their initial account, when they thought the suspect pointed the gun. JSO says they learned this new information after talking more with those officers and four witnesses.
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Officers were able to talk to four witnesses after the incident, but JSO is still looking for two more people that may have observed the shooting. One of the undercover officers is an eight-year veteran, and the other is a five-year veteran with JSO. Hackney said neither of the detectives have been involved in a prior shooting.
It is unclear at this time if the undercover detectives identified themselves as officers to the suspects. JSO is not yet releasing the names of the officers involved because they say that would compromise their work as undercover detectives.
Both men have been placed on administrative leave while the investigation is underway.
Green is listed at a hospital as stable. He has been charged with carrying a concealed weapon.
JSO says Green was involved in a shootout on a basketball court Sunday. They believe that incident led to the heated argument last night that detectives witnessed at Wilson Boulevard and Fouraker Road. JSO says during that argument, Green waved his gun around at first when arguing with two other men. When the officers approached him, we were told they felt they were in immediate danger.
"The subjects, as they go to detain him, he takes the gun and reaches for the gun in his waistband where he concealed it, said Director Tom Hackney. "Last night, I put some information that he actually pointed the gun at detectives, from talking to our detectives last night and some more witnesses at the scene, it turns he didn't actually point the gun at them but reached for the gun in their waistband."
JSO said the shell casings from Sunday's shooting are from the gun recovered at the scene of the police shooting.
Several neighbors who did not want to speak on camera told Action News they saw a detective place his foot on Green's head after Green had been shot.
Neighbor Johnny Newman said he did not see the shooting but said he spoke with Green shortly before it happened and later heard the gunfire.
"He's always been nice," Newman said. "He stopped here right before this happened and got change. He had a dollar and said, 'I need some quarters and I need to catch a bus downtown.' Thirty minutes later that's when I heard the gun shots."
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