JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A man is dead after a foot chase with a Jacksonville officer Tuesday morning after he drowned in a retention pond. Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office was called to a car dealership in the 7000 block of Pickettville Road in the Commonwealth area at about 3:15 a.m.
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Security at the dealership called police because a man was in the lot tampering with cars, JSO said at a news conference Tuesday morning. An officer arrived and made contact with the suspect. The officer ordered the man to stop and he didn’t, police said.
The officer deployed his taser, but it didn’t have any effect because he was wearing a large coat, police said. The man ran away and the officer gave chase. The man jumped a nearby fence and entered a retention pond.
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“He quickly went under,” JSO said at a news conference. Rescuers retrieved the man’s body from the bottom of the pond and he was pronounced dead.
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