JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — UPDATE: Jacksonville police have identified man killed as 54-year-old Djuan Jackson.
A man is dead after he was shot to death by Jacksonville sheriff’s deputies Monday night on the Northwest side of the city. Officers were called to the 1200 block of Grothe Street at about 8:40 p.m. for a carjacking.
Officers were on the scene for about an hour dealing with the family of the carjacking victim who was an elderly woman, JSO Director Mark Romano said during a news conference Tuesday morning. Romano said Jackson, who had nothing to do with the carjacking approached the scene and started harassing the family members.
“At some point he pulls a knife and officers hear the family members say, ‘he’s got a knife,‘” Romano said adding that officers saw Jackson making stabbing motions towards one of the family members.
“Two of our officers approached the suspect,” Romano said. “They were able to engage him, they shoot him multiple times striking him getting him off of the person he was stabbing.”
Romano said officers tried to render aid to Jackson and handcuffed him “as they’re trained to do.” After he was handcuffed, the officers noticed that Jackson had a butterknife, Romano said.
He was pronounced dead at the scene. The family member that officers said was attacked was not stabbed, Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Water said.
“The way the entire scenario took place it was very quick, a lot of confusion, a lot of noise, you could hear someone yelling out ‘he’s got a knife,’ officers saw the stabbing motion,” said Waters at the news conference. “He [officer] actually thought the victim had been stabbed several times because of the motions.
“It’s unfortunate that it worked out the way that it did,” Waters said. “… When officers see that kind of thing happen they have to take action at some point and do what they have to do to save lives and that’s what they did.”
The family did not know Jackson and told police they have seen him in the neighborhood recently, according to JSO.
The two officers involved in the shooting - Officer J. Montgomery and Officer J.C. Rose - are on administrative leave pending an investigation by the State‘s Attorneys Office.
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