UPDATE: B K was booked into Duval County jail at 5:18 a.m. Wednesday and charged with aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and currently has no bond.
A Jacksonville man was in critical condition at the hospital after being shot by two officers Tuesday night. Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office identified the 39-year-old suspect as B K. Police said he drove up to a construction worker who was directing traffic through a construction site at 10:42 p.m. at Interstate 295 and N. Main Street.
K got out of his vehicle and stabbed the construction worker with a knife, JSO said at a news conference at the crime scene Wednesday morning. The construction worker ran to his supervisor and said he was stabbed. The supervisor called to an off-duty Jacksonville officer who was working at the location and said, “‘Hey, that guy just stabbed our worker,’” JSO said.
The off-duty officer chased K in her vehicle in what JSO described as a short car chase. Another nearby Jacksonville officer joined the chase. After about four miles, K got out of his car in the 400 block of Duval Station Road and the officers ordered him to get on the ground and show his hands, JSO said.
K didn’t comply with the officers’ commands and the off-duty officer attempted to Tase him, “but it wasn’t affective,” JSO said. K then charged at one of the officers with the knife and they both shot him, police said.
Police said they didn’t believe K knew the construction worker and the stabbing seemed random. Police said the worker was “OK.”
Suspect known to JSO
A P, Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office Chief of Investigations, said K was known to JSO for what he did in October. That’s when police said K pulled up to an officer who was working a traffic crash. “He did the finger thing and said ‘you’re a dead man,‘“ P said making his hand in the form of a gun.
“The officer said ‘what did you say to me?’ and he [Kubi] repeated himself.” P said. K drove off and the officer got K’s vehicle tag information and made a report, P said.
K was also charged with domestic battery in 2019, P said.
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