A deputy pursuit of a burglary suspect ended Saturday morning when the man, who was armed with a pistol, was shot near Davis Park in Ponte Vedra Beach as thousands of children played nearby, Sheriff Rob Hardwick said.
– Karl Johnston was watching his 9-year-old daughter play in a soccer game Saturday when he heard a crash nearby. He looked up and saw a man running down the sidewalk right next to the field full of children.“The moment I knew something was wrong was when a gentleman said, ‘Get down!’ When I looked up, he came running and firing back at the police,” Johnston said. “Everyone panicked and got all of the kids on the ground, moving away from the shooter.
St. Johns County Sheriff Rob Hardwick said the incident began as a burglary to a storage unit on Palm Valley Road early Saturday morning. It ended about three hours later when deputies disabled a pickup truck near Davis Park to stop a police pursuit of a burglary suspect.The sheriff said the man ran from the truck and took a “defensive posture” between two vehicles at the end of the parking lot near the park filled with children.
Hardwick said multiple rounds were fired, and none of the deputies were hit by gunfire. The suspect was airlifted to a trauma center in Clay County. Hardwick said it was still unclear to investigators if the man shot at deputies, but Johnston said he saw the man fire his gun.
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