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A Jacksonville police officer shot a man multiple times Sunday morning after, Sheriff’s Office officials said, he took the officer’s Taser during a struggle and pointed it at the officer. The shooting followed a foot chase that began when police responded to a 911 call reporting a domestic dispute, heard a woman screaming and discovered a woman being strangled by a man on top of her inside an apartment at the Cleveland Arms apartment complex about 8:45 a.m. Devanta DeJuan Jones , 22, was shot at least four times by Officer Cliff Sames of the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office. The shooting happened after Sames and another officer tried unsuccessfully to stun the man, later identified as Jones, three times with their Tasers during the pursuit in which Jones kicked in the door, then ran through a neighboring apartment occupied by a mother and three children. Jones also tried but failed to force his way inside two other apartments during the foot chase, said Director Tom Hackney of the S...

ARTICLE OPTIONS WATERTOWN — Neighbors on Coffeen Street described a dramatic scene at a Friday afternoon fire . Tana Stephenson said she and her friend Sylvia Mayo were just pulling up to her house when they saw “white and gray, and then black” smoke coming from the porch of 228 N. Orchard St. Ms. Mayo said that she saw a woman run out of a neighboring house “yelling that there were people and animals inside. Just a minute after that a truck pulled up to the house. Two guys came out and actually kicked the front door down.” Ms. Stephenson, 418 Coffeen St., and Ms. Mayo, Adams, both said those events unfolded in less than five minutes. Both also described hearing an explosion and seeing flames “bursting out the front door” after the passers-by kicked it in. Watertown City Fire Chief Dale C. Herman confirmed that no one was injured. Witnesses say the occupants of the four- apartment house escaped before first responders from the city fire department arrived . He said that his depart...

TUCSON, ARIZ. — Capital Square 1031 has acquired Galeria del Rio , a 101- unit townhome community in Tucson, for an undisclosed sum. The community is located at 5132 N. Prairie Clover Trail . It was completed in December 2014. Galeria del Rio is currently 94 percent occupied. Notable neighboring employers include Raytheon Missile Systems , Texas Instruments, IBM, Intuit, Honeywell and Universal Avionics. Tagged more_sales_and_leases