Daytona 911: Recent Episodes
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A Tennessee man who was shot on Interstate 4 near Deltona Wednesday night said he was driving in the left lane when a pickup truck came up behind him, according to a 911 call.
A turtle crashed through the windshield of a vehicle on Interstate 95 near Port Orange on Wednesday morning hitting a woman in the head and sending her to the hospital, authorities said.
A caller reports the fatal head-on collision that claimed the lives of two Wisconsin siblings on I-95 near Daytona Beach.
Volusia County law enforcement tracks a speeding carjacking suspect on I-95 just before a head-on collision that killed two Wisconsin siblings.
A Port Orange man was charged with attempted first-degree murder after chasing a woman. shooting at her and repeatedly ramming her vehicle, police said.
An armed, suicidal man called a friend in Maryland to say he had shot himself. The friend called DeLand 9-1-1 to report it, which led to an armed standoff with DeLand police, Volusia County Sheriff's deputies, a bomb squad, and an ultimately peaceful resolution with the unwounded man.
On Tuesday Volusia County firefighters were called to Bear Paw Lane and Bright Way around 1:30 p.m. to reports of a white Mercedes Benz on fire.A body was found inside.
A dispute over McDonalds French fries led to a fight in the lobby of the restaurant on International Speedway Boulevard in Daytona Beach.
Volusia County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested a DeBary man Tuesday on a charge of aggravated assault after he intentionally coughed on a retail store employee, claiming social distancing because of the coronavirus pandemic is “getting out of hand.”
DeLand police are working to find out how a man ended up dead, apparently murdered, deep in the woods off of Summit Avenue near West New York Avenue, officials said on Monday.
A 14-year-old Palm Coast boy was killed Thursday night when the driver of the motorcycle he was riding on lost control, left the road and struck a utility pole, according to a release from the Florida Highway Patrol.
Two men have been charged in the weekend shooting death of a man at a beachside motel, police said.
Drivers called in to report their vehicles had been shot at by another vehicle on I-4. Later reports came from at least 14 cars damaged by gunshots from a pellet or BB gun on Interstate 4 and Interstate 95 as they traveled through Volusia County and stretching up to St. Johns County
A Deltona man’s hand was blown off by a commercial firecracker that he lit up while inside a vehicle on Saturday, Volusia County deputies said.
An off-duty Orange County Sheriff’s deputy was walking his dogs when he said a pit bull attacked his dogs and threatened him, so he shot the pit bull, according to a report. The pit bull’s owner disputes that account.
A DeLand man accused of beating his girlfriend unconscious now faces a murder charge as the woman died on Monday night, police said.
A gunman who fatally shot a neighbor in the neck Monday morning died in an exchange of gunfire with two officers, police said.
A retired corrections officer, angry her son would not answer the phone, got into a physical fight with him, aimed a gun at him and fired, Volusia sheriff’s deputies said, but the son grabbed the gun, narrowly avoiding getting shot in the head.
Two DeLand residents and a Kissimmee man were the three people killed Sunday when a twin-engine plane crashed near DeLand, according to a report.
One caller says the former owner of a dog stole it and he fired at the man's truck. Second caller says he never meant to give up the dog, and he got shot at. Who actually owns the dog is unclear, but the shooter was arrested.
A man called the Volusia County Sheriff's Office claiming to be holding three British Airways flight attendants hostage at Daytona Beach International Airport Monday. Problem: British Airways doesn't fly to Daytona. Also, the airport wasn't open yet.
Gregory Ramos, 15, accused of killing his mother after an argument over a poor grade, made this 9-1-1 call to report a burglary he admitted later was staged with the help of two friends, investigators said.
Daytona Beach police say a man is suspected of burglarizing a boardwalk concession stand and handing out cotton candy, soda and other treats to passersby. Nine gallons of ice cream, three trays of caramel apples, three trays of candy apples, 12 bags of cotton candy, six two-liter bottles of soda, 13 boxes of candy, two boxes of Oreo cookies, four boxes of Twinkies and four boxes of frozen bananas.
A patient was airlifted to a Daytona Beach hospital after being electrocuted Thursday morning near a construction site in Palm Coast.
A Daytona Beach woman was charged with second-degree murder after stabbing a man with a folding knife during an argument over drugs, police said.
A DeLand man who broke into a house, stole a Gatorade and took a shower was kicked out by the homeowner and was standing on the back porch naked when authorities arrived to arrest him, deputies say.
Former Bethune-Cookman head football coach Brian Jenkins was arrested on Sunday on charges stemming from a domestic dispute, according to the Port Orange Police Department.
A DeLand woman was killed on Tuesday after her car drove off the road and plunged into the Halifax River near the east end of the Orange Avenue bridge in Daytona Beach, police said.
A homeless Daytona Beach man shot his mother’s boyfriend while the man was lying in bed shortly after he was told he could stay on the couch, DeLand police investigators said.
This call is stopped before the fatal shot.
Robert Mosley was on his morning walk in a Port Orange neighborhood on Sunday morning when he heard a lot of meowing but could not see the cats.
Daytona Beach police are investigating a Monday afternoon shooting that left a man with gunshot wounds to his arm and abdomen, officials said.
Neighbors attempted to rescue a woman trapped inside, but the heat and smoke were too intense, fire chief says
One person was found dead after a travel trailer caught fire and exploded in a Port Orange RV park Thursday night, firefighters said.
A motorist called dispatch to report a toddler on the highway. The boy's parents were high on drugs at home, Volusia County sheriff's deputies said.
A person critically injured in a mobile home fire Tuesday morning in DeLand was on oxygen, police said.
A caller was just the latest to spot a black bear that has been traveling all over southern Volusia County in the last few days.
A wife called for help removing a woman from the couple's boat because the woman was having an affair with her husband.
A black man was celebrating Mother’s Day with his white wife at a restaurant near Edgewater when another man walked up and asked him if he was from Africa and whether it was “Africa Day,” according to a charging affidavit.
The racial confrontation resulting in the arrest of three men - two on hate crimes charges - only got uglier with fists flying and two men hurling the n-word, according to the affidavit.
An Edgewater man who had a role in the fatal attack of a pair of spring breakers 21 years ago called 9-1-1 to say he was going to go shoot himself. After a lengthy standoff with Volusia County deputies, during which he shot at a helicopter, he was taken into custody.
A man was shot during an apparent dispute outside Angelo’s Pizza early Wednesday morning, authorities said.
In the days before he grabbed his rifle and jumped a pharmacy counter at a Walgreens in Daytona Beach, Louis Curler said he felt as if he was being followed. He said odd things would happen to him, like the images on his phone's screen would inexplicably change. At one point he called Holly Hill Police after he felt threatened by a man with a gun but police only found Curler and no one else.
Ashlie Hicks, a clerk for the Flagler County Sheriff's Office, was driving to work Tuesday when she saw smoke coming from a Bunnell home, the Sheriff's Office said. She called it in and was able to help the three adults inside -- who were not aware the house was on fire -- out safely.
A gunman armed with an assault-style rifle jumped the pharmacy counter at the downtown Walgreens on Tuesday and appeared to be shooting up some drugs with a hypodermic needle when he was confronted by police.
A DeLand man stabbed his nephew four times with a 6-inch fillet knife for taking too long in the bathroom and claimed the younger man also made him feel disrespected, police said.
About 20 males were seen on Facebook video punching and kicking a man identified as a T-shirt shop worker in the Volusia Mall.
Curtis Gray, 18, was found with a gunshot wound to his abdomen lying in the parking lot of a laundromat in Bunnell. A suspected shooter and two associates were arrested the next day.
A man was shot in the stomach on Sunday night in a dispute over living arrangements near DeLand and the shooter was in jail without bail, sheriff’s officials said.
A mother wielded a can of soup to frighten off a carjacker Tuesday who tried to take her SUV with her 2-year-old son still inside after the suspect crashed his stolen car outside a neighborhood convenience store.
A Deltona woman faces child neglect charges after one of her 3-year-old twin sons left in her care nearly drowned in a hot tub at a Daytona Beach Shores resort Sunday night, police said.
William Johnson, 82, rolled across two lanes of State Road A1A aand then zipped through the parking lot of Al Weeks Sr. North Shore Park. He crashed through a wooden fence before his vehicle dropped 20 feet onto the beach.
After his Toyota Venza landed on the sand, the car ran over a 5-year-old girl and struck the other three children, her 3- and 11-year-old brothers, and her twin sister, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
A person was shot in the neck Thursday night in the 800 block of East Indiana Avenue in DeLand, according to a release from the DeLand police.
A homeless man who was armed with burglary tools and a syringe near New Smyrna Beach was stopped from entering a house by a gun-wielding homeowner, according to the Volusia County Sheriff's Office.
A duct-taped man jumped out of the trunk of a car in Daytona Beach in what police suspect was a drug-related kidnapping that started 9 miles away in Port Orange, authorities said.
A Daytona Beach woman was recovering Monday after suffering severe injuries when two pit bulls attacked her as she walked home, officials said.
A construction equipment fire shut down the the Dunlawton Avenue bridge on Monday morning, and firefighters had to attack unconventionally to extinguish the flames.
A suspect on a Volusia County bus claiming to have a bomb and threatening to detonate it surrendered after a two-hour standoff, authorities said.
A Deltona city employee suffered a severe hand injury Monday afternoon when a firework went off in his hand, officials said.
An off-duty Daytona Beach firefighter working out at a gym saved the life of a police officer, who had a heart attack, while exercising at the same facility, authorities said.
Several drivers called in to report someone driving the wrong way on I-95 early Wednesday morning. That driver ultimately struck another vehicle head-on. The firastdriver was killed, the other was pulled from his burning vehicle.
Two women said they witnessed a Chow Chow mix being chased by a man wielding a baseball bat and then moments later they saw a woman kick the dog "as hard as she could," Daytona Beach police said.
A man who jumped out of a second-story apartment window in Daytona Beach on Tuesday and broke his back was arrested after police discovered the apartment was supposed to be vacant.
Six people were rescued from the water in the Intracoastal Waterway on Wednesday afternoon after they jumped from a boat that caught fire, officials said.
When a Deltona teen declined to assist two men who approached her car as she arrived home from work around midnight Wednesday, the pair pulled out guns and demanded she exit the vehicle, authorities said.
An officer was shot by a felon with an assault rifle in Midtown and the suspect, who has a violent recent past involving firearms, told them he meant the bullets for people who “triple crossed him,” officials said.
A Waste Pro employee was crushed to death Wednesday morning after a garbage/recycling truck overturned, trapping him underneath.
The search for a missing man who fell off a boat on Lake Harney in Osteen ended Thursday afternoon, Nov. 15, 2018, when a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission official said the man's body was recovered.
A gun battle between two vehicles at a skating rink in Ormond Beach at midnight Saturday left a bullet hole in a daycare and a shrapnel cut to a person’s face, authorities said.
A Ponce Inlet police officer was fired less than two months after his arrest on a domestic battery charge and he decided at the last minute not to file an appeal in an effort to keep his job, the police chief said.
A 6-month old baby kidnapped in a car from a Holly Hill tow yard was found safely, police said.
A pizza delivery driver was attacked by a pit bull Thursday evening when he was delivering a pizza to a Palm Coast house.
A commercial shrimping boat out of Key West ran aground on Ormond Beach late Monday, Oct. 16, 2018, giving beachgoers a close-up gaze at the 150-ton vessel Tuesday morning.
A clash between Deltona neighbors over a boy throwing baseballs at a man's fence turned into a gun battle when one man threatened another with a handgun and was then shot himself when his neighbor opened fire, according to reports.
A Daytona Beach couple attacked by their pit bull on Sunday had to kill the dog in order to save their lives, their son said to a dispatcher in a 9-1-1 call.
A single engine airplane flipped over in a field in DeLeon Springs Sunday afternoon while trying to make an emergency landing after an engine malfunction, officials said. The two occupants suffered minor injuries.
Newly appointed Edgewater City Councilwoman Megan O'Keefe is charged with domestic battery following allegations she scratched and punched her estranged husband Wednesday during an argument.
A “large package” containing 23 smaller packages of marijuana was found Wednesday morning on the shore by beachgoers in Ormond-by-the-Sea and it is likely that the choppy Atlantic surf being churned by Hurricane Florence that caused it to reach land, an official said.
A man shot to death at a gas station in DeLeon Springs on Tuesday was part of a “beat down,” the culmination of a fight that started the day before, authorities said on Wednesday.
An employee of the Denny’s restaurant in north DeLand was seriously injured by lightning Tuesday, authorities said
A homeless woman was lying across Atlantic Avenue early Thursday when she was struck and killed by a city employee in a flatbed truck who drove away from the scene, police said. The call has been edited to remove graphic descriptions.
A New York state man accused of terrorizing his girlfriend was arrested on allegations he was shooting at another woman who was trying to save the frightened girlfriend.
Christopher Carter was arrested after a woman told dispatchers he tried to run her over with a truck.
One man was rushed to the hospital after a drive-by shooting Wednesday afternoon and police were looking for the gunman and his accomplice.
Excerpts of 9-1-1 calls before and after a shooting death in Seville. In the first, a victim's advocate is calling for help for her client, who notified her she had been beaten. In the second, a friend of the man shot is calling for medical assistance.
Orange County deputies followed five teens in a stolen vehicle into Volusia County where they watched them break into a DeBary gun shop and steal 18 firearms including handguns, shotguns and AR-10 and AR-15 rifles. An OCSO officer kept in touch with the VCSO, asking them to hold back.
The deputies followed the group back to Orlando where they arrested them after a traffic stop, according to reports. All but one of the firearms were recovered.
A 20-year-old man out boating with friends on the Intracoastal Sunday night either jumped or fell overboard at some point and disappeared under the water.
The blaze was reported at 4:55 a.m. and firefighters doused the fire which started and was initially contained in the boiler room within about 30 minutes, according to a release from the Daytona Beach Fire Department.
But the fire reignited about 7:50 a.m., a fire official said. It spread from the boiler room in the back of the building to the rest of the three-story concrete hotel, gutting it as flames burned through the roof and smoke churned out of the windows.
A 16-year-old girl's mother called 9-1-1 to report the girl had been taken by a man on an ATV. Robert A. Dishman was arrested and charged with kidnapping, child abuse, interfering with custody and driving with a suspended license.
Dispatchers said someone called and said a tree had fallen on at least one person and that CPR was in progress. The man, Benjamin Allen, 56, died the next day.
The man police say is responsible for killing one man and injuring two others in a shooting outside a South Ridgewood Avenue motel early Thursday was arrested around 10 a.m. Thursday, about 8 hours after he fled the scene and sparked a manhunt.
A parent is facing a child neglect charge after a sheriff’s official said a baby was left inside a car Tuesday outside a hardware store near Orange City.
The Sheriff’s Office said late Sunday investigators were still trying to figure out what caused nine juveniles at the Volusia Regional Juvenile Detention Center to go into riot mode and injure two detention officers.
An elderly Edgewater woman awoke to find a naked stranger standing over her, police said.
The frightened 93-year-old screamed at the intruder Friday morning, she said in a 9-1-1 call to a dispatcher.
A beach police officer was arrested and accused of stealing a beach umbrella and $170 cash after a woman spotted him rummaging through her car outside an Ormond Beach bar.
Two men were injured, one critically when a small plane crashed Thursday at the Spruce Creek Fly-In near Port Orange, the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office said.
Two people were ejected and six people were hospitalized Thursday night after the roller coaster at the Daytona Beach Boardwalk malfunctioned, officials said.
Two people fell roughly 34 feet to the ground when, sometime around 8:15 p.m., the roller coaster went off track, according to the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office.
A man attacked outside Holly Hill Little Caesars calls to tell dispatchers he's shot a man. A witness also calls.
A federal aviation investigator said an antique Cessna 140 was 200 feet in the air when it made a left turn and crashed near the Spruce Creek Fly-In airport, critically injuring the pilot and killing his passenger Tuesday night.