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A released video of a police-involved shooting of a Jacksonville man on May 26, 2020, shows the man charged the officer and repeatedly told him "I have a gun." He also repeatedly taunted the officer, screaming at the officer, "kill me."

First Coast News has chosen not to name the deceased or the responding officer for this story.

The incident happened when a Jacksonville sheriff's officer responded to a traffic accident on J. Turner Butler Boulevard. His encounter with the driver quickly turned deadly. The video, which begins with the officer checking on the man's wellbeing and ends with his death, is only nine minutes.

The man told the officer he had fallen asleep at the wheel and crashed his car. The car is shown with severe damage in the video.

He said he was uninjured other than some chest pain, and he was exhausted from driving to Jacksonville from Savannah.