before turning the gun on himself, taking his own life. other than the three individuals and the shooter himself, there are no additional people who suffered gunshot wounds. we are not identifying the deceased victims at this time but i can tell that you there are two male victims and one female victim. all the deceased victims are black. multiple units responded to this active shooter scene as did fire rescue, our mayor and city leaders. we are still in the very early stages of this investigation so there s a lot of information that we don t know at this time. i will share with you the individual that i ve been able to verify. the shooter was believed to have reside in the clay county with his parents. he was involved in a 2016 domestic call in clay county with no arrest. in 2017, he did have the baker act. we know 11:39 a.m. today, sheriff cook gave us information that he left clay county and ledded to jacksonville. at 1:18 p.m., he texted his
jon: fox news alert. authority is in jacksonville, florida holding a news conference about the deadly shooting earlier today at the dollar general store. let s listen in to the sheriff. information i ve been able to verify. the shooter was believed to reside in clay county with his parents. he was involved in 2016 domestic call in clay county with no arrest. in 2017 he did have. we know 11:30 9:00 a.m. today sheriff cook gave us information left clay county headed to jacksonville at 1:18 p.m. he text his father, and told his father to check his computer. at 1:53 p.m. the shooter s family members called the clay county sheriffs office. by that time he already began shooting in jacksonville. the clay county sheriff s office a bit assisting our agency of this investigation. received information after the shooting the shooter had authored several manifestoes one to his parents, one to the media, and onto federal agents.
The bodies of the three Florida victims and their dog were pulled from an underground tank filled with sewer gas, located in a cornfield in Bastrop, Texas