A local restaurant served meals to the homeless near the Jacksonville Landing after the restaurant could not serve food at an event near the area where the deadly double-shooting happened on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
Glen Miller, a What's Cookin' employee who posted the Facebook video Wednesday that shows workers donating food, said the food would've gone to waste since the restaurant could not serve it at the canceled event at the Art Bar.
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In the video, some of the workers gave food in to-go boxes to homeless individuals at the Jacksonville Landing and Hemming Park.
What's Cookin' calls itself an American and Southern cuisine restaurant located in Hyde Park Jacksonville. On Mondays, the restaurant provides food for Art Bar's Open Mic, which is located at the Jacksonville Landing.
Millar said in the Facebook post to not let "a few bad apples" keep people from attending the Monday night event.
Mom of teen killed at Jacksonville Landing: 'My son is not a gang member'
The double-shooting happened on Jan. 16, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, at the Landing, leaving a 13-year-old boy injured and a 16-year-old boy dead.
The mother of Khamoi Petersen, the 16-year-old, said her son tried to get help from officers because he "saw something" at the Jacksonville Landing before the shooting.
"He asked the police officer. He said he was in fear for his life," she said. "And (the officers) walked off on him." She said as soon as the police walked away, gun shots rang out.
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