6 shot near Florida stadium

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Six people have been wounded, some seriously, in a possible gang-related street shooting blocks from the north Florida stadium where the NFL’s Houston Texans played and defeated the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday afternoon, authorities said.

Ron Lendvay, director of investigations for the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, said several shots were fired about 12:35 p.m. on Sunday outside a laundromat on a boulevard in the general area of the stadium and that five men and one woman were struck by bullets and wounded. He said all were rushed to hospitals and that they ranged in age from their 20s to the 70s.

The shooting came less than a half hour before the game’s scheduled 1 p.m. start. But the sheriff’s official reported no link to the game, which went on and concluded without incident. At an afternoon news briefing outside the laundromat where the shooting erupted, Lendvay said, authorities had cordoned off the site for an extensive criminal investigation. Lendvay told reporters that a shooter fired from the passenger side of a grey, four-door sedan driven by someone else, but details were sketchy and investigators didn’t immediately determine a motive. He said the car left the area and that detectives were checking surveillance video to try to identify the vehicle and locate the occupants.