According to community leaders, more people need to adopt the mindset that law enforcement officers are vastly more effective when they have community support.
man was gunned down Saturday while standing next to a food truckFlowers could be seen Monday marking the spot where a man was gunned down Saturday while standing next to a food truck in Jacksonville.
Investigators said they learned that five or six men approached him with weapons in hand and fired more than 40 shots.No one else was hit in all that gunfire, and because of that, police said the shooting may have been a targeted incident. The Sheriff’s Office is still investigating the attack, but the part of it that astonishes and terrifies community leaders who News4JAX spoke with on Monday is that it happened in broad daylight.
“What everybody knows by now, I lost my son to gun violence, and that’s what prompted me to start Quench the Violence as a nonprofit to try to help other parents,” LeCount said.“I think it’s time now that the community ought to get angry and upset about all this killing going on in our city, and I know some of us sit back in our living room and on our table and we don’t really have no concern about it until we hit our house, but I tell you, you don’t want this to hit your home,” LeCount said.
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