JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Jacksonville Sheriff's Officer Malik Daricaud was shot and seriously injured when officers knocked at a suspect's door Sunday, Sheriff T.K. Waters said.
The shooting took place near Morse Avenue on the city's Westside.
Daricaud was shot once, Waters said, but he could not confirm where the shot hit. Waters visited the officer in the hospital and says he is awake and speaking, but the situation is "tenuous."
Body camera footage shows that the officer fell flat on his back, causing the camera to put up at the sky, and did not move after the shots were fired.
He was accompanied by several other officers, as well as the suspect's mother, when the shooting occurred.
Video shows that the shooter, identified as Tyliko Maduro, was prepared to shoot when police came to the door.
Police were following up on a traffic stop on March 19 where Maduro fled the scene. Waters said the offense was not serious enough for officers to give chase, so they planned to go to Maduro's door and speak with him instead.
Officers met Maduro's mother while searching for him, and she accompanied them to knock on the door of the residence he was inside.
Waters said officers did not secure a warrant because they did not plan to search the home. They only intended to have a conversation with Maduro.
When officers knocked at the door, video shows, Maduro began shooting.
Police did not return fire and a SWAT team was called to extract Maduro.
Waters confirmed that Maduro fatally shot himself during the SWAT standoff later on Saturday.
He said he did not know Daricaud well previously, but understands he is a "fine young officer."
"I don't know if his career is going to ever be the same," Waters said. "If there's going to be a career from now on."
Morse Avenue has been reopened but police remain on scene at Firestone Road and Skylar Jean Drive, near the Family Dollar. The shelter in place order has been lifted for residents but police still ask that the community avoid the area, if possible.
Maduro's fiance told First Coast News she was upset that police came to the house so early in the morning. She says he thought someone was breaking in.
Waters said at the press conference that police will often go to knock on someone's door at the very beginning of their shift or the end of their shift, meaning it is early in the morning.
