17 People Shot, 3 Killed in Six Violent Encounters: Jacksonville's Halloween Weekend Toll, Counted on Monday
Three people were killed and 14 others were wounded in six shootings across Jacksonville over Halloween weekend, including an officer-involved shooting at a Northside apartment complex, authorities said in the tally News4JAX published Monday - the first full accounting of a weekend this desk covered incident by incident.
The weekend now has a count. Seventeen people were shot in Jacksonville over Halloween weekend - three killed and 14 wounded - in six violent encounters that included an officer-involved shooting, according to the tally News4JAX (WJXT) published on Monday, November 2, in a file read by the Local Desk this run. The dead are a 17-year-old girl and two men in their 20s, the report said.
The encounters, as this desk covered them through the weekend: two Halloween party shootings early Sunday killed the 17-year-old outside a party on Arlington Expressway and a 20-year-old man at a West 5th Street house party, wounding 11 others between them (SQ-20261101-040); a man in his 20s was shot to death on East 27th Street on Sunday afternoon, the weekend's third killing (SQ-20261102-010); and on Sunday evening officers shot a man who opened fire at the Levi at River City apartments on Broxton Bay Drive, leaving him in life-threatening condition in the year's 15th Jacksonville police shooting (SQ-20261101-079). The remaining encounters in the six produced the rest of the wounded in the tally.
Police said the two party shootings were unrelated and were both the result of fights that led to gunfire, the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office said in the weekend's reporting, and no arrests had been reported in either party shooting as of noon Sunday. Anyone with information about either shooting can contact the Sheriff's Office at 904-630-0500, the office said.
What Monday's tally changes is the frame: not six separate stories but one weekend, counted whole - 17 people shot in a single holiday weekend in one city. The desk reports the count exactly as authorities gave it to News4JAX; the investigations are ongoing, and no victim in the tally is named here beyond what officials released in the weekend's own reporting.
