A man suspected of killing two Indian River County public works employees outside a library on Tuesday was “still at large,” police said during a Wednesday news conference.
The shooting occurred Tuesday at about 7 a.m. in the back parking lot of the Indian River County Main Library, 1600 21st Street. When officers arrived, they found the bodies of Danny Ooley, the assistant director of Public Works, and Stacie Ellis Mason, a traffic analyst technician.
Double homicide that claimed 2 Indian River County employees was ‘crime of passion’
Vero Beach Police Chief David Currey said that Ooley arrived at the parking lot in a Ford Ranger. Mason then arrived a short time later in an SUV and got into the passenger’s side of Ooley’s truck.
Shortly thereafter, investigators said surveillance video showed the suspect, Jesse Scott Ellis, 64, arrive at the scene and approach the Ranger…