Around 11:50 a.m., District 2 patrol officers responded to a call from a woman reporting she had been battered by her partner. The suspect had left the house before officers arrived. The officers were in the process of receiving an arrest warrant for the suspect when he returned to the home in the afternoon.

The suspect held the woman and her 9-month-old child against her will for several hours. At one point, she and the child were able to escape into the nearby wooded area and call for emergency services. The suspect came out of the house and fired a rifle into the air.

Officers arrived to the area and located the woman and child in the wooded area. During this time, the suspect made verbal threats to shoot the woman. The suspect also made threats he planned to “kill everyone” if officers showed up.

The suspect found the woman and officers in the wooded area and pointed his handgun at them, and two officers fired shots at the suspect. The suspect was taken into custody and transported to a hospital to receive treatment for his gunshot wounds.

The suspect is 30-year-old Marcus Delay, a white man.

The officers who fired the shots are Officers J. Jones and G. Comayagua. No officers were injured in the incident.

This is the 10th officer-involved shooting this year for the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office. The State Attorney’s Office is on scene, completing its investigation. Once its investigation is complete, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office will conduct its own investigation.

Watch the briefing at the scene on JSO's YouTube Channel.

Information, as it becomes available regarding this officer-involved shooting, will be posted on JSO's Transparency page.