‘We’re numb’: Jacksonville family identifies man killed in Paxon shopping center shooting

Action News Jax is hearing from the family of Corey Denmark, the man they say was shot and killed in a shopping center in Jacksonville’s Paxon neighborhood on Wednesday night.

We first covered this shooting as breaking news less than two hours after the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said officers responded to the shopping center.

JSO said two men were found shot in the parking lot of the shopping center at the intersection of Edgewood Avenue and Broadway Avenue, at around 8:10 p.m. JSO told us one of the men was killed, and the other went to the hospital, where he is expected to recover.

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Denmark’s family said they’re not sure how or why he was at the shopping center, but they told us they’re feeling numb to the loss, still unsure of how to process it.

“We’re just in disbelief,” said Natasha Hughes, Denmark’s sister, “he’s not coming home. It’s over.”…

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