Neighbors uneasy following drive-by shooting in Riverside

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Photo of slug holes successful car successful Riverside vicinity pursuing drive-by shooting.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A drive-by shooting has near galore radical surviving the Riverside vicinity connected edge. One household told News4Jax it plans to move.

The shooting, which occurred Monday, near slug holes successful cars and successful the sides of homes on Goodwin and Ernest Streets. It’s an country residents would typically picture arsenic quiescent and peaceful.

One women, recovered a spread successful her surviving room.

“I’m terrified. I’m terrified close now,” said the woman, who asked to stay anonymous.

One mother, who for her ain information did not stock her name, said she, her hubby and their 3 children were sleeping erstwhile she awakened to the dependable of gunshots astir midnight.

“It was the loudest sound I person ever heard -- bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang,” she recalled. “So we popped up and cheque connected our kids first, and we ran and looked retired the window.”

According to the incidental study from the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, a antheral called constabulary saying that an chartless idiosyncratic drove by successful a acheronian colored SUV and began firing shots. That idiosyncratic past fired back.

Another nonmigratory who heard the commotion called 911.

“I peeked retired done 1 of our windows, and I conscionable saw instantly similar 4 our 5 constabulary cars spell by” the nonmigratory said. “I saw an ambulance and a occurrence motortruck and I saw them each spell to the country house.”

Investigators said they recovered 20 ammunition casings and a mag for an AR-15 astatine the scene.

The constabulary study states the 1 antheral was grazed by a slug connected his ankle.

No 1 other connected the thoroughfare was hit, contempt bullets hitting homes and astatine slightest 4 cars.

“We could person been killed,” the parent said. “There was a slug successful my neighbor’s location and we were conscionable astatine the close space wherever thing came successful our windows.”