Estranged uncle shoots niece’s boyfriend in Edgewater home, police say

A Leesburg man broke into his niece’s Edgewater residence March 15 and shot her boyfriend when he came home and tried to get inside, police said.

Christopher Ryan Merritt, 41, the estranged uncle, was charged with attempted murder, aggravated battery and resisting arrest without violence.

He remained locked up March 16 without bail at the Volusia County Branch Jail…

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