Here's what we know about the man killed by Jacksonville police and wanted in Broward
The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office has identified the man killed by officers Friday evening as 39-year-old Zonchez Delarfette Prince.
Jacksonville authorities had been working with the Broward County Sheriff's Office concerning a murder case there and executed a search warrant for a home and vehicle. It produced two pistols, one in the home and one in the vehicle, the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office previously said.
That led to another warrant, this time for Prince's arrest in the case. Officers tracked him to an Orange Park shopping center parking lot in a vehicle in the 1100 block of Park Avenue. They called in a SWAT team and made contact with him about 6 p.m. as officers blocked his vehicle with their own, Chief Alan Parker said.
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Prince was uncooperative, stating, "I'm not getting out, you're going to have to shoot me, you're going to have to kill me," according to Parker at the scene.
As one officer backed out, a second officer in the front maintained contact and continued to order him out of the vehicle. The suspect then pointed a handgun at that officer, and both officers opened fire killing him, Parker said.
The Sheriff's Office did not release further information about the homicide Prince was connected with in Broward. The Times-Union also has requested details from the Broward County Sheriff's Office.
A search of court records shows no criminal record for Prince in Broward County other than one misdemeanor arrest in 2008 on charges of possession of cannabis and drug paraphernalia. He also had nothing in Clay County and just traffic tickets and a couple of evictions in Duval County from 2010 to 2022.
This was the Sheriff's Office's seventh shooting of a suspect this year, six of whom died, according to Times-Union records. Last year 12 people were shot by Jacksonville police, eight fatally.
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