A police officer was shot Monday morning while assisting the Drug Enforcement administration in serving a high-risk search warrant in a neighborhood off Moncrief Road.
WJCT News partner News4Jax reported the veteran officer, who was working with a Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office SWAT team, was released from the hospital within hours.
Sheriff Mike Williams said the officer was hit several times, but all the shots landed on his bulletproof vest. The officer managed to return fire.
“There is a significant amount of trauma even when you are shot in the vest,” Williams said.
The officer is not being named to allow time for all his family members to be notified.
The incident happened just before 8 a.m. at a house on Rutledge Pearson Drive, off Ken Knight Drive, not far from Ribault High School. Williams said when the SWAT team announced from a loudspeaker they would be serving the warrant, several shots were fired at police from inside the house.
Williams said two people, a man and a woman, who were in the house were detained without any additional incidents.
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