A council member in the Florida city says the assailant is dead.
Multiple people were fatally shot inside a Jacksonville, Florida, Dollar General store, the city’s mayor has told a television station.Mayor Donna Deegan told WJXT “there are a number of fatalities” inside the store but did not give a precise number.
Numerous police officers are in the area near Edward Waters University, a small historically black university.“One shooting is too much but these mass shootings are really hard to take.”She did not give details.Edward Waters University students are being kept in their dorms, the school said in a statement.Further details were not immediately available.
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