Surveillance camera captures dramatic moments before officer shoots man who police say attacked girlfriend

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The intense moments leading up to a deadly officer-involved shooting on Jacksonville’s Westside on Sunday were captured on a neighbor’s surveillance camera.

The neighbor shared the video with News4JAX, which we have chosen to end just before the officer fires his weapon. (Press play above to watch.)

In the video, a man police identified as 40-year-old Michael Lee Wright can be seen banging on the hood and window of a police vehicle outside his home. The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said the encounter happened around 11 a.m. Sunday.

Officer Patrick Burke had escorted Wright’s girlfriend back to the property because she said Wright had attacked her earlier on Sunday when she returned to the home to get some of her belongings, police said.

When Burke arrived, Wright quickly became aggressive, repeatedly hitting the car and yelling.

Burke can be seen reversing several yards down the street as Wright follows him.

Then Burke switches course and drives forward, pushing Wright into a neighbor’s yard with the SUV.

As Burke gets out of the SUV with his gun drawn, Wright advances on him, and Burke can be heard yelling at Wright to “drop it!” It’s unclear what Wright was holding.

When Wright charged at Burke, yelling “Go ahead and kill me,” Burke fired multiple shots, JSO Chief Alan Parker.

“Earlier in the day, he texted [his girlfriend] ‘Ima die today,’” Parker said of Wright. “So we don’t know his intentions.”

Wright immediately goes down in the video, and once Burke secures Wright, he can be seen performing CPR until help arrives. Wright died at the hospital.

JSO said Wright had an extensive drug history and overdosed in the past week.

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The full briefing by Chief Alan Parker and Sheriff T.K. Waters can be watched below.

A list of mental health resources available in Florida can be found here. There are also nationwide resources such as the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, which provides 24/7, free, and confidential support for people in distress, prevention, and crisis resources for you or someone you know.

8 officer-involved shootings this year

JSO said this is the agency’s eighth officer-involved shooting of 2025, and Burke’s first in his five-year tenure with the agency.

JSO reported eight officer-involved shootings in all of 2024.

Another man was shot and killed while wielding butcher knives after attacking two people on Friday night, JSO said.

News4JAX asked JSO for comment on the number of officer-involved shootings so far this year. A spokesman sent this statement:

These instances, over the years, have fluctuated routinely. In looking at our Transparency site, the numbers have been as high as 16 in 2020 and as low as 6 in 2018 – the Transparency Site tracks OISs from mid-2015 to present.

These are unfortunate incidents, that are spawned as a result of an individual forcing law enforcement into responding to deadly force circumstances. The decision to escalate force to a degree that officers must defend themselves or other’s lives has to be made in seconds – and again, are merely reactions to stimulus created by others.

As these cases continue to be active investigations, we are going to respectfully decline to comment on them any further at this time.

News4JAX crime and safety analyst Tom Hackney, a law enforcement veteran of 30 years, said it’s good to look at the bigger picture of the overall numbers and trends, but said cases like these need to be looked at on their own to determine what can be learned and what to do moving forward.

“There’s two sides of this coin when we talk about this. One, every one of those incidents has to be looked at in its own merit, so you have to judge them and view them and investigate them and address whatever comes from them,” Hackney said.

He added that the department will likely take a look at the bigger picture to see what trends are happening both locally and nationwide.

According to the JSO database for Officer-Involved Shootings, two other cases this calendar year were originally for an “armed suicidal individual.”

Hackney said the goal, particularly with those who might be in a mental health crisis, is to de-escalate and slow things down, but sometimes things can change quickly.

“It all happens very quickly and in so many circumstances, changes on a dime that you have to be ready for it for just about anything,” Hackney said.

Hackney said the department trains and learns from situations like this, but sometimes things become too dangerous.

“As a responding officer, you have to be cautious about what is happening there and that you’re not subjecting yourself to becoming a victim,” Hackney said.

He added that officers in these situations have to live with the outcome, along with the families of those who are killed.

“Not only does it harm the individual who does something to cause themselves to be killed by law enforcement to their immediate families, but also to the officer,” Hackney said. “The viewers who see this may not think of the trauma that‘s associated with the taking of a life by a law-enforcement officer, but it is there, and it does weigh on them.”

The State Attorney‘s Office is investigating the shooting. JSO said once that is complete, it will conduct an internal investigation.