JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office is searching for a suspect in the shooting death of a 23-year-old man Monday night. JSO received a call at 11 p.m. to Carder Street- near Lake Shore Boulevard after shots were fired.
The victim was later identified by police as Markus Tanner.
According to witnesses, Tanner was speaking with a black male on a bicycle. The individual on the bike shot Tanner, then fled south on Lakeshore Boulevard. Tanner died at a hospital.
There is very little description of the suspect. According to JSO, the person is a black male in his late teens to early 20s and took off with a dark t-shirt wrapped around his head.
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News4Jax looked into JSO's crime-mapping system and found that within a half mile radius of Carder Street, there has been:
- 76 assaults
- 27 burglaries
- 8 vehicle thefts
- 2 robberies
If anyone has any information about the shooting, call Crime Stoppers at 866-845-TIPS. We will continue to update this story as soon as more information becomes available.