Chief Brian Kee said there have been about 380 overdose deaths in Jacksonville this year, many from fentanyl.
No officers were hurt and only one home appears to have also been struck in the exchange of gunfire. Kee said luckily no one was out in their yard at the time.
He was the eighth suspect shot by Jacksonville police this year and sixth who was killed, according to Times-Union records. That compares to six suspects shot all of last year with three dead.Jacksonville police also were shot at twice last month, with one officer being struck in his bulletproof vest.when two officers responded to a burglary at a home near Old Middleburg Road and were met with gunfire from the 37-year-old suspect, the Sheriff's Office said.
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