JACKSONVILLE BEACH, Fla. — New video shows chaos and crowds running during a weekend shooting in Jacksonville Beach, and the 18-year-old suspect is still out there.
While our news team was out covering that shooting in Jacksonville Beach, our veteran photographer was attacked from behind.
Police have arrested a male juvenile in that attack.
With his knee wrapped in bandages, our veteran photographer Robert Jackson has the cuts and bruises to prove he was assaulted.
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"I was completely blindsided. Apparently the kid jumped on me and punched me in the back of the neck," Jackson said.
He and our newest reporter, Katie McKee, were on 1st Street in Jacksonville Beach getting video of St. Patrick's Day crowds when it happened.
Jackson saw a couple fighting and started recording on his GoPro camera.
"When I got enough video, I was walking back to the truck and the next thing I know, I felt somebody slug me," Jackson said.
"A guy came out of nowhere -- literally nowhere -- and jumped on his (Jackson's) back, punched him in the side of the neck and took him down on the sidewalk," McKee said.
A witness saw what happened - and intervened.
"As the guy went down to the ground on the pavement, the kid was about to get on him and start pounding him from behind. So someone had to do something," said witness Corey Thayer.
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