Police blocked off North Main Street near 22nd Street after an officer-involved shooting late Sunday, Jan. 11. 2026. | News4Jax
Published on January 12, 2026 at 1:47 pm
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A man was treated for multiple gunshot wounds Sunday night after a shootout with Jacksonville police officers, the third officer-involved shooting in a week.
The shooting in the Brentwood area followed shootings last week that killed one person and injured another. Those incidents followed a violent 2025, with 17 officer-involved shootings.
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On Sunday, officers were called out just before 7 p.m. north of Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway during a surveillance operation for drugs and weapons.
Undercover officers were in an unmarked car near 22nd Street and North Main Street, watching a home to see whether drug transactions were occurring there, Chief Michael Paul said.
That’s when Samuel Deandre Cook, 35, of Jacksonville, apparently pulled out a handgun and pointed it at officers.
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Paul said the man pointed the gun at the windshield and the officers shot at him through the windshield.
The suspect ran as the officers jumped out of their vehicle and chased him about two blocks, firing at him as he fired back, Paul said.
Cook was found behind parked cars and had been hit by officers’ gunfire multiple times. He crawled out in response to officers’ commands, Paul said.
Cook was taken to UF Health Jacksonville for treatment and then booked into jail just before 1 a.m. Monday on felony charges of attempted murder of a police officer, aggravated assault and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, jail records show.
Sheriff’s warning
The officers, nine-year veteran R. Mills and four-year veteran S. Lyons, were not hurt. This was Lyons’ second officer shooting and Mills’ first, Paul said.
Sheriff T. K. Waters’ had a warning Sunday — do not pull guns on police.
“We are not playing games here,” the sheriff said during a news conference. “This is not tiddlywinks; this is real life. When we are responding to calls and doing police actions, if you show up with a handgun or any kind of firearm, there is going to be a shootout, and you are going to get shot.”
Duval County jail records show that Cook has prior arrests for drug sales, possession and resisting.
Third shooting
The incident came only six days after two other shootings involving officers in Jacksonville.
Two officers killed a man late Jan. 5 at the Luxor Club Apartments on Egrets Nest Drive after multiple 911 callers reported a domestic dispute. Paul said Daniel Rodriguez, 35, pulled out a gun as officers walked up to him and was shot.
Less than a half hour later, three other officers shot and injured Offero Manalon, 68, after he picked up the rifle in a garage on Creeks Ridge Road and was shot, police say. He was caught after a SWAT standoff at the Arlington home, police say.
The State Attorney’s Office is reviewing all three cases to see if officers violated laws, to be followed by a procedural investigation by the Sheriff’s Office.
