Four people were shot over the weekend at a music festival in Jacksonville Beach. The shooting happened during a "Takeover" event on Saturday.
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Police confirmed a shooting happened near Beach Boulevard and 2nd Street during the Community First Seawalk Music Festival at the Seawalk Pavilion. The Jacksonville Beach Police Department initially
reported the shooting happened Saturday night.Sergeant Tonya Tator confirmed that some people got into "some kind of a tussle, and then shots were fired." Ultimately, four were injured. This included one minor. All four needed a trip to the hospital for non-life-threatening injuries.
Shooting at Music Festival
The music happened during a "takeover" music festival event. Mayor Christine Hoffman spoke publicly on the shooting.
"We had a wonderful festival going on, and by all accounts, we're having a really great day, until a few bad actors who decided to bring chaos and violence to our community," Hoffman said. "There was a separate takeover event that was not permitted. The organizers of the event, again, we are going to hold them as accountable as we possibly can."
The mayor promised that events like this must be addressed, and that violence is not the answer.
"Other people in this crowd that are choosing to bring chaos and violence to our community, so it ends now," Hoffman also said.
After the shooting, police closed down the music festival for the evening. An investigation is ongoing, but so far, they haven't made any arrests in the shooting. They believe that more than one person may have fired a weapon.
One local, Liam Kilty, opened up about the music festival shooting.
"So I live across the street, and I can't allow this happens all the time we get news about this often it's like probably the third time this month. It's unfortunate cause I go to school here and you know I don't wanna be shots," Jax Beach resident Liam Kilty said.
We'll keep you updated as more info comes to light.
