JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A Saturday afternoon shooting at a Lakeshore shopping plaza has left two people seriously injured and shaken a community that thought the area was safe.
According to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, a smoke shop clerk in his early 20s confronted someone suspected of stealing in the parking lot outside the store on Shirley Avenue. Police said that’s when a second man pulled a gun and opened fire.
Police said there was an exchange of gunfire, and the smoke shop clerk was shot in the chest and taken to a local hospital with life-threatening injuries. Authorities said another man, also in his early 20s, was shot in the abdomen and remains in critical condition…