In the last half hour, police left a Southside home
where they were investigating a dispute between a father and
son that turned deadly.
JS OS Undersheriff confirmed the relationship with Action News Jax.
And this all happened in the Deer Cove neighborhood and
actually Jackson.
Megan Moriarty is live at the scene.
And Megan, you spoke with neighbors who never expected something
like this to happen.
And Ben and Tanika, good morning.
Since 8:30 this morning, this street here was covered in
police cars and it was an active crime scene.
But Lake Ben mentioned this.
The people who live here say that it was relatively
quiet.
Well, look at this street right here.
Now that police have cleared out, you can see that
it is a quiet neighborhood.
A lot of neighbors were very concerned to wake up
to seeing an ambulance.
JFRD and JSO on the scene here.
Neighbors saying that it is very typically quiet and they
all look out for each other.
The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office is investigating why a man killed
his father inside his Southside home on Wednesday morning.
The son kills the father in the middle of night.
Just kill him.
Use the senseless killing.
Cynthia Austin lives a few doors down from where the
shooting happened When the ambulance came in.
We did not know he was dead when the ambulance
came in.
They took the stretcher down and that's when they came
back empty.
The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office says it was called out to
Farm Lake Drive around 8:00 this morning.
They found a man in his 60s with multiple gunshot
wounds.
JFRD pronounced him dead on the scene.
Sergeant Ray Reeves with Jso's homicide units as a man
in his late 20s or early 30s was detained.
We will continue to investigate later.
Jso's under sheriff confirmed that investigators have determined the man's
son shot and killed him.
I was kind of taken back.
Peter Brown has done landscaping work in the neighborhood for
15 years and was shocked to see the crime scene
unit and medical examiner on the street.
I don't have the word to really put to that.
I mean, it's shocking to be honest in this neighborhood.
JSO says it's still investigating to learn what led to
this, but they don't believe that there is any threat
to the public.
We're working to learn what the what charges rather the
suspect will face.
For local coverage, you can count on Live on the
South Side, Megan Moriarty, Action News Jax.