JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — New details have emerged about the 16-year-old accused of shooting and killing a man in an apartment near Westside High School Thursday morning.
The suspect, Alex Reddice, was a student at the school and knew the victim.
Reddice faces second-degree murder and armed robbery charges following the deadly shooting.
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According to the police report, Reddice and other neighborhood boys had gone to 31-year-old Carlos Nieves Rivera’s apartment.
Nieves Rivera’s girlfriend told police neighborhood boys would often come over before school, and he’d sometimes give them marijuana.
She told police Reddice came to the apartment the morning of the shooting and played Call of Duty.
Much of the report is redacted, including specific details of how the shooting played out.
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The shooting caused Westside High School to go on lockdown for roughly four hours.
Students we spoke with near the scene recalled hearing multiple gunshots.
“I thought I was trippin’ cause I hadn’t already heard it. Faw! Faw! Faw!” said Westside High School student Octavius Misson.
Nieves Rivera’s girlfriend last saw him as he dropped her off at work.
When she answered a phone call from his cellphone later on, it was another person’s voice telling her he’d been shot and killed.
Reddice was apprehended by police while walking from his home where he had changed clothes according to the report.
We reached out to JSO and DCPS and asked whether Reddice made it on school campus after the shooting.
DCPS directed us to JSO, but the sheriff’s office said it couldn’t provide any additional details beyond what is in the report.
While no students were harmed and the school was able to lift the lockdown by mid-day, the students we spoke with told us it was traumatizing to know a shooting had occurred so close.
“They really need to stop the gun violence man. For real. This can’t be. This ain’t safe. People’s kids out here man,” said Misson.
According to the report a search of Reddice’s home yielded a large amount of marijuana, cash, and other narcotics, but “no items of evidentiary value were located”.
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