‘I heard the shots’: Father mourns loss of 17-year-old son killed in Eastside drive-by

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It was a deadly Halloween play successful Jacksonville. Six radical were changeable and 2 died. Among the dormant is Jocori Jones, 17, who constabulary accidental was gunned down aboriginal Sunday greeting connected East 19th Street adjacent Henry Brown Kooker Park.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – It was a deadly Halloween play successful Jacksonville. Six radical were changeable and 2 died.

Among the dormant is Jocori Jones, 17, who constabulary accidental was gunned down aboriginal Sunday greeting connected East 19th Street adjacent Henry Brown Kooker Park.

On Monday, News4Jax spoke to radical who knew him and by each accounts, Jones was a bully kid who radical described arsenic saccharine and respectful.

A neighbour said wherever Jones was changeable was conscionable a fewer doors down from his home, wherever his begetter heard the shots.

“Wherever helium went, if you cognize him, helium ever gonna marque you laugh,” begetter Terrence Bozman said. “Just a bully idiosyncratic to beryllium around.”

Jocori Jones and his father, Terrence Bozman. (News4Jax)

Bozman said Jones was a emblematic 17-year-old boy.

“He played video games, liked to speech connected the phone. He ain’t ne'er caused nary problem,” Bozman said.

Jones had 3 younger brothers who looked up to him. His begetter said helium worked astatine a warehouse and was a pupil astatine A. Philip Randolph High School wherever helium was acceptable to postgraduate adjacent year.

According to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, Jones was with a radical connected 19th Street astir 2 a.m. erstwhile a metallic car pulled up and idiosyncratic wrong started shooting.

Jones was killed and a teenage miss was wounded and is expected to recover.

“I don’t cognize however I wrapper my encephalon astir it, due to the fact that I heard the shots,” Bozman said.

Bozman said helium was conscionable getting retired of the ablution erstwhile helium heard 7 to 10 gunshots. His archetypal thought was to cheque connected his son. Bozman said helium checked his son’s country earlier moving extracurricular inactive wearing a towel. Just feet distant helium saw his son.

“Lying determination lifeless,” helium said.

Bozman says beingness is antithetic now.

“Usually helium conscionable comes up to me, dada this, dada that, dad, tin you instrumentality maine to work? Dad, tin you prime maine up from work? Now, I don’t adjacent perceive nary of that now. So maine waking up is conscionable similar a whole, conscionable a dream,” helium said.

Whoever killed Jones is inactive retired there.

“I request answers, thing got to beryllium served,” Bozman said.

Bozman said his son’s imagination was to beryllium a merchant sailor erstwhile helium grew up.

If you cognize thing astir what happened to Jones, you’re asked to telephone the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office astatine 904.630.0500.

Anonymous tips tin besides beryllium made to CrimeStoppers astatine 1-866-845-TIPS (8477).

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