Breon Pittman
Breon Pittman, 19, died after being shot at The Regents Apartments on Caravan Circle. He’d been stopped by police who were responding to a report of shots being fired at the Southside complex. An officer felt a gun in Pittman’s waistband and another officer shot him after he struggled, broke away and turned toward the officers, said Director Dwain Senterfitt of the Sheriff’s Office.
Pittman is the 25th person shot by Jacksonville police this year, compared with 19 shootings in 2007. Twelve of those shot this year have died, compared with nine last year.
The Jacksonville man had been the subject of a police brutality claim settled by the city in 2006, city records show.
witnesses later identified Pittman as a man who had been firing a gun in the parking lot before police arrived. He said they recovered 16 shell casings that matched the type of gun found in the hoodie.
Police records show Pittman had several previous arrests, including several charges of drug possession.
One of those arrests occurred in September in an apartment at the Regents. A report said that an officer investigating a report of an armed, suspicious person saw Pittman, through an apartment window, reach under a cushion and pull out a handgun. Pittman answered the door with the gun in hand and then tried to shut the door, the report said. He threw the gun on a desk and was detained. Police found numerous guns and marijuana in the apartment. Waddell was one of the officers on that call.
Lundquist is a five-year veteran of the Sheriff’s Office and has been involved in one other shooting in which no one was hurt, police records show. As a routine measure, he is on administrative leave pending reviews of the shooting by the State Attorney’s Office and a Sheriff’s Office response to resistance board.
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Of course, this is tragic. I would have like to read a follow up article.