6 people shot, 2 killed amid weekend violence in Jacksonville

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A Jacksonville enactment says much needs to beryllium done pursuing a drawstring of unit implicit Halloween weekend.

According to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, six radical were changeable implicit the weekend, 2 of whom died.

That includes a 17-year-old who was changeable and killed successful a drive-by shooting connected Jacksonville’s Eastside aboriginal Sunday morning. Family members identified the idiosyncratic killed arsenic Jocori Jones.

Another teen injured successful the shooting was expected to survive.

Bishop Mark McGuire is an enforcement manager of Cure Violence -- an enactment that targets blistery spots oregon areas wherever unit has been salient for years. The radical wants to marque definite the shooting doesn’t spark much violence.

“Violence is an epidemic and we dainty it arsenic an epidemic,” McGuire said.

Members of the program, called mediators, spell into the high-risk areas, helping children and teenagers recognize that unit is not acceptable, and ne'er the answer.

Many of the mediators, McGuire explained, unrecorded successful the aforesaid neighborhoods oregon are from akin backgrounds.

“Relevant individuals who person had that motivation shift, who person realized that pulling the trigger is not the mode to resoluteness struggle and determination are different ways to mediate and de-escalate,” McGuire said.

He said the radical besides wants radical to cognize aft crimes are committed that retaliation is ne'er an option.

“It’s permanent. It’s not a PlayStation oregon an Xbox crippled wherever you tin deed the reset fastener and effort again,” McGuire said. “You don’t get different lives that you tin gain by winning battles. It’s 1 life.”

Anyone with accusation that tin assistance constabulary successful the play drive-by shooting should interaction Crime Stoppers of Northeast Florida.