JSO: Woman killed outside home in Riverside while confronting car burglar

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Police said she was connected the telephone with 911 dispatchers erstwhile she was shot

Woman killed extracurricular location successful Riverside portion confronting car burglar

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Investigators are looking for a idiosyncratic who changeable a pistillate and near her for dormant erstwhile she tried to halt a car break-in adjacent her Riverside home.

A Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office spokesperson said 911 dispatchers received a telephone from the pistillate arsenic she was trying to face the burglar extracurricular her Myra Street home. During the confrontation, portion she was inactive connected the telephone with the dispatcher, the burglar fired a azygous gunshot and past ran off, constabulary said.

Later successful the day, JSO released surveillance video of a imaginable fishy successful the shooting.

When archetypal responders arrived astir 5:40 a.m., they recovered the pistillate lying unconscious successful her driveway. She was rushed to the infirmary but died from her injuries, constabulary said.

Neighbors described the unfortunate arsenic a benignant pistillate that spoke with everyone. They said she and her hubby person lived successful the vicinity for astir six years.

Police said determination were a bid of car break-ins that night. They are hoping pursuing leads connected those break-ins helps officers get accusation that could pb to the suspected shooter.

Neighbors reported seeing and surveillance video showed a shirtless antheral successful the country astir the clip of the break-ins. The spokesperson was wide that investigators are not definite if the antheral was the burglar, but are inactive seeking his whereabouts for questioning.

News4Jax transgression and information adept Ken Jefferson believes it volition beryllium a challenging case.

“Outside of autarkic witnesses, extracurricular of collecting grounds that whitethorn person been near astatine the country specified arsenic latent prints oregon an point oregon thing you tin straight nexus to idiosyncratic oregon surveillance cameras, it’s precise hard if you don’t person those things moving for you,” Jefferson said.

Anyone with accusation is asked to telephone the Sheriff’s Office astatine 904-630-0500 oregon Crime Stoppers astatine 1-866-845-TIPS. You tin besides taxable tips astatine JSOCrimeTips@JaxSheriff.org.