Overview
- Police say 35-year-old Samuel Deondre Cook pointed a handgun at an unmarked car in Brentwood, prompting officers to fire through their windshield before a two-block chase in which Cook returned fire and was wounded.
- Cook was treated at UF Health Jacksonville and booked on felony counts including attempted murder of a law enforcement officer, aggravated assault, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
- The involved officers, identified as nine-year veteran R. Mills and four-year veteran S. Lyons, were not injured; it was Mills’ first officer-involved shooting and Lyons’ second.
- Sheriff T.K. Waters warned residents not to confront police with firearms, as the State Attorney’s Office reviews this case and two earlier police shootings from Jan. 5, with JSO’s internal procedures to follow.
- In separate incidents Saturday night, two women and a man were injured in three non-police shootings across Jacksonville over about five hours, according to JSO.