Officer involved shooting of man with Knife in Jacksonville

ACKSONVILLE, Fla. — UPDATE: Jacksonville police have identified man killed as 54-year-old Djuan Jackson.

A man is dead after he was shot to death by Jacksonville sheriff’s deputies Monday night on the Northwest side of the city. Officers were called to the 1200 block of Grothe Street at about 8:40 p.m. for a carjacking.

Officers were on the scene for about an hour dealing with the family of the carjacking victim who was an elderly woman, JSO Director Mark Romano said during a news conference Tuesday morning. Romano said Jackson, who had nothing to do with the carjacking approached the scene and started harassing the family members.

“At some point he pulls a knife and officers hear the family members say, ‘he’s got a knife,‘” Romano said adding that officers saw Jackson making stabbing motions towards one of the family members.

“Two of our officers approached the suspect,” Romano said. “They were able to engage him, they shoot him multiple times striking him getting him off of the person he was stabbing.”