Officials said five officers fired after the man shot at them in Mandarin.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Jacksonville officers shot and killed a 53-year-old man Wednesday in Mandarin after police said he fired at them during an attempted arrest tied to a deadly morning shooting.
The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said the man was a person of interest in a shooting about 5:30 a.m. on Susie Street, just off Old Middleburg Road North, where a woman was killed and a man was injured. Investigators later tracked him to Julington Creek Road near Sand Ridge Drive.
Undersheriff Shawn Coarsey said detectives identified the man “almost immediately” after the Susie Street shooting. Officers learned he also had an active theft warrant issued Dec. 31 and moved to arrest him on that warrant. Around 1 p.m., members of the Community Problem Response Unit found him in the 5100 block of Julington Creek Road.
Police said officers blocked the man’s vehicle from the front and back. Coarsey said the man tried to get around the block but could not. He then pointed a gun at officers and fired at least once, officials said. Five officers returned fire, killing him at the scene. No officers were injured.
Coarsey said investigators recovered a firearm underneath the man’s body and found physical evidence that he fired the weapon. The sheriff’s office did not release the man’s name at the scene because his family had not yet been notified.
The officers who fired were identified by JSO as Sgt. Eleftheriadis, Detective Prescott, Detective Whitmar, Detective Walling-Millanes and K9 Officer Mulhearn. JSO said two of the officers had been involved in prior officer-involved shootings, while the other three had not.
The State Attorney’s Office is conducting its review of the shooting. After that review is complete, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said it will conduct its own internal investigation. JSO said information about the shooting will be posted to its transparency page as it becomes available.
The shooting marked the seventh officer-involved shooting this year for the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office. The morning homicide investigation on Susie Street also remains active, and officials have not released the names of the woman who died or the man who was injured.
Author note: Last updated April 24, 2026.