JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Workplace launched movies that element the occasions that led to the taking pictures that left an officer injured and the robbery suspect dead.
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The surveillance video from contained in the Household Greenback close to Soutel Drive and Norfolk Boulevard within the Sherwood Forest neighborhood confirmed Jamari Rashaud Akins, 20, on the money registers in a dark-colored hoodie pulled over his head with a “COVID-like” masks overlaying his face.
He factors a gun on the clerk and calls for cash from the money register. The lady started frantically trying to open the register.
“I’m making an attempt to open the register,” she stated to Akins as a dispatcher overhead the dialog as a result of she had managed to name 911.
“Man, hurry up with the switch,” he replied to her.
The lady begged Akins to not shoot her as he steadily grew visibly impatient.
“Please, don’t come across the nook,” she pleaded. Ultimately, she offers Aiken $100 in money, and totally different surveillance movies catch him operating off by a close-by condominium advanced on Norfolk Boulevard.
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Officer Luis Mercado noticed Akins, jumped out of his cruiser, and ran after him.
“Aye, [expletive] get on the bottom!” Mercado commanded. “I’ll [expletive] shoot you.”
The video reveals Mercado lastly catching as much as Akins and taking him to the bottom. Whereas he was being detained, Akins fired two pictures, hitting Mercado as soon as within the leg.
Mercado then returned fireplace, fatally hitting Akins.
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