Police killings
2013-2020

Reginald Leon Boston Jr.

Male, Black

Date of the incident: 1/21/2020

Jacksonville, Duval, FL
11400 Harts Road

Around 5:40 p.m., a victim reported a robbery. The victim was trying to buy an iPhone from a seller on social media when the seller allegedly robbed the victim at gunpoint. JSO officers set up an undercover operation in the area and made contact with three people and attempted to make arrests. At that point, someone produced a gun, and the officers commanded for the suspects to drop the gun. (To be clear, the news report sounded as though multiple people were told to drop a single gun.) The people reportedly did not drop the gun. The officers shot and killed one person and wounded another.