Aydian Ahmad
Digital Producer

A Jacksonville man is headed into April with over 600,000 reasons to be happy. On Monday, the 41-year-old Duval County man turned a $5 scratch-off ticket into $605,016 after playing and winning the “DOUBLE YOUR MONEY” game.
Two days before a domestic incident Sunday that ended in a deadly officer-involved shooting on Jacksonville’s Southside, police had been called to intervene in a similar incident involving the same couple.
The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said one person died Saturday night following an officer-involved shooting in the San Jose neighborhood. According to the agency, Alquan Suydam, 28, was waving a gun while “holding his girlfriend against her will” when the police were called around 9 p.m.
An 11-year-old Florida resident was recently arrested after pointing a gun at two separate groups of people and demanding their car, according to the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office.
The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said one of the missing boaters from the boat that capsized in the St. Johns River has been located.
Derrick Gaffney, a Jacksonville native and Raines High School alumnus who played seven seasons in the NFL for the New York Jets, died on Monday. He was 69.
A woman who helped her fiancé pose as a nurse in Clay County was arrested along with the fiancé in Michigan on Monday, Clay County Sheriff Michelle Cook announced Tuesday. While posing as a nurse, according to investigators, the fiancé oversaw the care of an elderly man who died of natural causes less than six months ago.
A Clay County couple was arrested in Michigan on Monday after a woman helped her fiancee pose as a nurse who oversaw the care of an elderly man who died less than six months ago, the Clay County Sheriff’s Office said.