A crowd packs Jacksonville Beach on Sunday, March 17, 2024. | News4JaxA crowd packs Jacksonville Beach on Sunday, March 17, 2024. | News4Jax
A crowd packs Jacksonville Beach on Sunday, March 17, 2024. | News4Jax

Jax Beach police seek videos from shootings

Published on March 20, 2024 at 4:19 pm
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Jacksonville Beach police have set up a digital site for people to submit videos of the violence Sunday night that killed one person and injured three others near the pier and downtown bars.

Police are specifically seeking videos that show the area around the Best Western Oceanfront on 1st Street North, as well as the boardwalk from 3rd Avenue North to Latham Plaza.

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Investigators also are looking for videos shot along 1st Street North. Other potential locations include Beach Boulevard between 1st Street and State Road A1A and the Sneakers Sports Grille parking lot from 7:45 to 8:45 p.m.

Three separate shootings occurred between 7:30 and 8:30 p.m. Sunday after crowds descended on the city on St. Patrick’s Day. James Jones III, 21, died in the third shooting.

Police hope videos from the community will contain evidence to help solve the shootings. The upload site was created in cooperation with the FBI

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Anyone with information or videos can upload them anonymously to fbi.gov/jaxbeach-shootings

Lead image: A crowd packs Jacksonville Beach on Sunday, March 17, 2024. | News4Jax


author image Reporter email Dan Scanlan is a veteran journalist with 40 years as a radio, television and print reporter in the Jacksonville area, as well as years of broadcast work in the Northeast. After a stint managing a hotel comedy club, Dan began a 34-year career as police and current events reporter at The Florida Times-Union before joining the staff of WJCT News 89.9.

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