This was the second shooting in Jacksonville this weekend. The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office estimated that 4,000 people attended the Raines High football season opener Friday night. Around 3,000 fans had left by the time a triple shooting occurred that left one dead at the game, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office.
The sheriff’s office said the shooting occurred up around 10 p.m. Officers at the scene found three victims with gunshot wounds. One victim, a young adult male, died at the scene. Rescue transported two others to the hospital, according to the sheriff’s office.
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Here is what you should know about Jacksonville, according to VisitJacksonville.com:
• Jacksonville is the largest city in the continental United States with over 840 square miles.
• Nestled along the St. Johns River in downtown Jacksonville, The Jacksonville Landing has year-round entertainment, a wide variety of waterfront dining options and an inside shopping mall. For more than 25 years, The Jacksonville Landing has been one of the top stops in downtown Jacksonville. The Landing hosts more than 600 events each year including Florida/Georgia Weekend Celebrations.
• The Jacksonville Landing was built by the Rouse Company and opened on June 25, 1987. The Rouse Company, now owned by General Growth, Inc., also built other festival marketplaces like Harborplace in Baltimore, MD and Bayside Marketplace in Miami, Fla.
• The Landing has 126,000-square-feet of space and is a U-shaped pavilion on nine acres fronting the St. Johns River.
• The city was named for General Andrew Jackson, the first military governor of Florida who, incidentally, never visited Jacksonville
• The eclectic Five Points area, with unique shops and dining experiences, is named for its landmark five-way intersection.
• The military employs over 30,000 active-duty personnel and nearly 20,000 civilians in the Jacksonville area.
• As of 2018, the median age in Northeast Florida is 36 years old - younger than all major cities in Florida.
• The Dames Point Bridge opened in 1989 at a cost of $117 million dollars. It is the second longest concrete cable-stayed bridge in the Western Hemisphere.
• The Jacksonville Navy Memorial, on Downtown’s Southbank Riverwalk, commemorates the relationship between the people of Jacksonville and the U.S. Navy. The statue is of a young sailor looking out to sea, dressed in uniform with his duffel bag at his feet.
• Pete’s, the oldest bar in Duval County, was featured in the John Grisham novel The Brethren.
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