A shooting at a Dollar General store in Jacksonville, Florida, left four people dead on Saturday, Fox News reported.
The Jacksonville Police Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Jacksonville Mayor Donna Deegan told News4JAX a man had barricaded himself in Dollar General on Kings Road.
Jacksonville Council Member Ju’Coby Pittman, who described the incident as a tragedy, said she understood that the suspect was killed.
Mayor Donna Deegan told WJXT “there are a number of fatalities” inside the store but didn’t give a precise number. Numerous police officers are in the area near Edward Waters University, a small historically Black university.
“This is unacceptable,” Deegan told the station. “One shooting is too much but these mass shootings are really hard to take.”
Edward Waters University students are being kept in their dorms, the school said in a statement. No students or faculty are believed involved, the school said.