12/12/2022
Bodycam Footage Shows Moment Leading to Ax-wielding Man Being Shot by Jacksonville Officer
The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office on Friday released police body-worn camera footage that was taken in April, when a man who was wielding an ax was shot and killed by an officer.
It happened on April 21, when the Sheriff’s Office said police were called to Morse Avenue just before 4 a.m. in response to a call “regarding a mentally ill individual.” Sheriff T.K. Waters, who at the time was JSO’s chief of investigations, said that initially, officers were unable to locate the man.
He said officers came back around 11:30 a.m. following another call from neighbors.
One of our officers at that point walked through through a wooded area of a small field where he saw the subject standing behind some woods holding a hatchet, a small ax,” Waters said.
“He (the officer) announced ‘put the hatchet down.’ They announced three more times, ‘put the ax down.’”
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