St. Patrick’s Day shootings put Jacksonville Beach in national spotlight

JACKSONVILLE BEACH, Fla.Earlier this month, Gov. Ron DeSantis increased law enforcement personnel and assets across the state to places like Miami Beach, Daytona Beach and Panama City Beach, but not Jacksonville Beach.“We welcome people to come and have a good time. What we don’t welcome is criminal activity,” DeSantis said.

“We are under a bit of a microscope out here because we do not have incidents like that so we’re getting a lot more attention than maybe other areas would,” Hoffman said. “Statistically we are a very safe community.” “Anywhere from 250 to 400 juveniles in their late teens arrived at that location. Because of the intelligence information we proactively had officers assigned to this group. This group engaged in boxing matches, fights, and other incidents and Jacksonville Beach Police Department had to take action and disperse the crowd. When the crowd was dispersed, that’s when the shootings happened,” Smith said.Shots were fired at three different spots, and police responded in seconds.

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