As Deon O Neal Jenkins and a friend sat in a car parked outside a Circle K in Palm Coast in the darkness of an early October morning, a man armed with a high-powered rifle concealed himself behind the gas station.
At 3:34 a.m. on Oct. 12, 2019, the man with the gun emerged from the darkness and within four seconds fired 16 shots at Jenkins, 26, and his friend, said Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly during a press conference on Friday.
Flashes from the gunfire lit up the darkness. One of the bullets pierced Jenkins heart, killing him, a report said. Jenkins friend was hit in the right thigh and survived.
The Daytona Beach News-Journal
Why so little info?
If there is a common thread to your articles about the virus and the Department of Health-Volusia County, it is Information was not provided. Why the secrecy? What is so sensitive, that we cannot be given more facts on this vital issue?
In the News-Journal article about the January 4-5 vaccination at the Daytona Stadium, a spokesman did say that they hope to vaccinate around 2,000 people. There are 50,000 seniors 75 and above in Volusia County! Only the scantiest information about this hugely important event is being released.
Doses are arriving daily. How many, we are not told. Allocation, we are not told. After waiting almost a year, we are expected to just sit around and hope we don t die before they get to us.
A carjacking suspect driving against traffic on a Florida freeway during a high-speed chase on Tuesday night crashed head-on into an SUV, killing two Wisconsin siblings, officials said.
Death has been a grim, constant marker of the ultimate impact of the the coronavirus pandemic in 2020.
The casualty count is updated daily. Nationally, the death total that approached 334,000 as New Year s week began already dwarfed the casualties of such historic events as the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Pearl Harbor and the Vietnam War.
In Florida, the virus has accounted for the deaths of more than 21,300 Florida residents, a figure that doesn t include more than 300 non-resident deaths. In Volusia County, as of Monday, there have been 430 deaths. In Flagler County, there have been another 48.
Behind each of those numbers is a story.
Wisconsin siblings killed in wrong-way crash with Florida carjacker were following family home after seeing Christmas lights Patricio G. Balona, The Daytona Beach News-Journal
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Two Wisconsin siblings killed in a head-on crash in Florida near Daytona Beach on Tuesday night missed their exit after visiting a Christmas lights display when a carjacking suspect fleeing from police slammed into their vehicle, Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood said.
The veteran sheriff got emotional at a news conference Wednesday afternoon when sharing that the 21-year-old brother and his 18-year-old sister, accompanied by another 13-year-old sibling and a 17-year-old female cousin, died following family home after visiting a Christmas lights exhibit at Daytona International Speedway.