Eduardo Labrada Machado, a 24-year-old Circle K employee, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder for the fatal shooting of David Jewell on Monday. Jewell, an Edgewater police officer, was off-duty.
Machado confessed to the murder, stating he had seen Jewell in the store several times and believed they had an argument in the past, though he could not recall details, according to a Volusia County social media post Tuesday morning.
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Machado did not know Jewell was a police officer and claimed to have been afraid of him after seeing him with a firearm, the post states.
Critical incident stress support is being provided to colleagues of Jewell.
Machado, who has lived in the United States for 10 years as a legal resident with a green card, was having a bad day on his drive to work and thought about shooting Jewell earlier, the social media post states…