Zach Wilcox with First Coast News opened his live report with a line that instantly raises every red flag: a suspect is dead after the Nassau County Sheriff’s Office said a concealed gun went off while the person was sitting in the back of a patrol car.
In the First Coast News broadcast, anchors Jeannie Blaylock and Anthony Austin put the scene on the map right away. They pointed viewers to the area near State Road 200 and Gene Lasser Boulevard in Yulee, close to a Circle K and an Aldi grocery store.
When Zach got on camera from the scene, he described how intense it looked earlier in the day. He said that about 10 minutes before his live update, deputies and Florida Department of Law Enforcement vehicles cleared out, which stood out to him because there had been “quite a few” law enforcement vehicles there when his crew first arrived…