Violent night: 5 people shot across Jacksonville a few hours apart, including juveniles

Five people were shot overnight, one dead, in a span of 6½ hours across Jacksonville, according to the Sheriff’s Office.

The fatality puts the city unofficially at 62 homicides compared to 49 at this time last year when the killings dropped extraordinarily, Times-Union records show. (The T-U’s numbers are higher than what the Sheriff’s Office lists on its transparency page because the agency no longer lists police shootings as homicides. For consistency over the last 20 years, the newspaper is not changing its record keeping.)…

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