JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A woman was hit in the back Tuesday morning by a bullet that was fired into her home by someone outside, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said.
The shooting was reported around 3 a.m. on Las Colinas Way, which is in the Jacksonville Heights South area of the city’s Westside.
When officers responded to the report of a person shot, they found the woman, who is in her 20s, inside her home with a gunshot wound to her back. She was taken to a hospital and her injuries are not considered life-threatening.
Police said only one bullet entered the home, and it’s unclear if the house was targeted.
Relatives at the home did not want to speak but said the woman was recovering and expected to be okay.
This isn’t the first time something like this has happened in Jacksonville.
Last Friday in East Arlington, former News4JAX reporter Maggie Lorenz and her boyfriend Boone Lewis were sleeping when an argument between neighbors outside their home led to gunfire, and their bedroom window became the unintended target.
“To be dead asleep at 2:30 in the morning and just hear the loudest bang. I knew it was gunshots. I knew immediately. I was terrified,” Lorenz said.
Lewis said the two were lucky that they weren’t struck.
“We got lucky that it was up above our heads and not that big of a deal because of the type of gun they chose to use,” he said.
Two weeks ago, two bullets flew into a home in Northwest Jacksonville while the family was sleeping. A teenage girl was hit but suffered non-life-threatening injuries.
And in December, a 2-year-old was critically injured when bullets came flying through a Hogan’s Creek home.
Crime and Safety Analyst Tom Hackney said that given the number of weekly -- sometimes daily -- shot fire calls that JSO responds to, it’s not surprising to learn that an innocent person and their property have become unintended targets.
“It’s a miracle this city doesn’t have more murders because of this kind of thing than they do,” Hackney said.
Anyone with information about any of these shootings is asked to contact JSO at 904-630-0500 or CrimeStoppers at 1-866-845-TIPS.