JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A pregnant woman was shot twice around midnight Friday while she was leaving a recording studio in the Spring Park area on Jacksonville's Southside, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office.
"From a distance I heard pop up, pop pop," a neighbor said.
JSO says around 12 a.m., officers responded to Shock Boy Productions, located at 2820 Gibson Rd. and upon arrival, they found the unidentified woman in her late-20s suffering from two gunshot wounds.
"It sounded like a woman screaming other people yelling and stuff," a neighbor added.
Police say she was shot once in the upper torso and once in the lower torso.
The woman was taken to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, according to police, but it's not known the condition of her unborn baby.
JSO says the woman was leaving the music studio when a brown van pulled up and two unidentified males wearing masks, exited the van and discharged firearms, striking the woman.
Surveillance video obtained from the Law Offices of Fred Tromberg shows the woman walking to her car in a parking lot of a nearby building at 12:06 a.m. She gets into the car. Seconds later, a person approaches the car and flashes of the gun are caught by the security camera. That person runs towards the recording studio and a dark colored car speeds off. The person then gets out of the car and walks back towards the building.
The owner of the recording studio says the victim did walk to the parking lot of the recording studio after she was shot. There was a trail of blood from where her car was parked to the studio to confirm that. Surveillance video shows officers responded by 12:16 a.m.
The owner says he doesn't know the victim and says his business is not involved. He confirmed multiple engineers booked rooms to record with artists Friday night says she was a guest of someone who rented out a studio to record. He says his business has nothing to do with the violence.
A man who lives across the street says it's usually a quiet area, so he's shocked about the act of violence.
"They'll record four o'clock in the morning or five o'clock in the morning. But generally, I can't hear anything other than maybe a car that has one of those loud basses going. When you hear that there's been gunfire across the street from where you live, you think, a bullet has no mind of its own. It just goes wherever it's aimed. You get concerned," the neighbor added.
There is currently no description of the suspects nor a description on the make and model of the van as police say the shooting is under an active investigation. The incident report states that two witnesses were detained from the shooting.
First Coast News found a red Lexus at the scene of the shooting Friday morning, with a large hole present on the back shattered window. Police did not provide any information on the Lexus or if it played any role in the incident.
Anyone with information on the incident is asked to call JSO's non-emergency number at 904-630-0500 or contact Crime Stoppers at 1-866-845-TIPS.