JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — UPDATE: Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office identified the suspect as Amir Bradshear, 26.
A man was shot and killed by Jacksonville police late Tuesday after a violent confrontation at a home in northeast Jacksonville, according to the sheriff’s office
Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office responded to a call at about 11:20 p.m. at the home in the 12500 block of Brahma Bull Circle W. in response to a domestic disturbance, JSO said Wednesday morning at a media briefing near the crime scene.
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Officers arrived at the scene, entered the home, and heard loud frantic screaming from a locked room. Officers kicked the door down and saw a man holding a woman by the hair while she clutched a young child, police said. The woman was reportedly pregnant with the man’s child, police said.
Officers used a taser to separate the two and spent 30 to 45 minutes trying to get the man out of the room, police said. The man exited the room and attacked the officers knocking one over and driving another through the kitchen, police said.
After struggling with the man, two officers and a sergeant shot him, police said. He was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Two officers received minor injuries.
Police have not released the man’s man.
“Throughout this whole thing, the guy was in and out of whatever he was saying,” Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office Chief Alan Parker said during the media briefing. “They [officers] couldn’t really make sense of it. He’s continuing to eat this lady’s hair that he had ripped out during the fight inside the room.”
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