Posted March 23, 2017 2:49 pm by Comments

By Jenn Jacques

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On Monday morning, just before 10 a.m., a Westside Jacksonville, FL neighborhood was ambushed by a gunman allegedly carrying an AK47.

Neighborhood homeowner and veteran Paul Ballard grabbed his gun before going out to investigate gunshots and screaming coming from the area of Buttercup Street and Brannon Avenue.

“He was waving his rifle around, and saying something to my neighbors, who were over by the van and his children, and he started walking towards her and that’s when I looked toward him and said, ‘Not in this neighborhood. There ain’t going to be no shootings in this neighborhood,” Ballard told News4Jax.

When the man started shooting at him, Ballard said he fired back, managing to hit the gunman’s vehicle as he fled the scene.

“He tried to shoot my neighbor’s dog in close proximity to my neighbor. I think he shot a second time in the direction of my neighbor and his children. And then when he saw me and I made the comment that there were not going to be no more shootings in this neighborhood, that is when he turned full semi-auto with an AK-47 and opened up on myself and my house,” he said.

“I mean, the response time when the …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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