Overview
- Volusia County Judge Elizabeth Blackburn approved a defense request to block public release of any confessions, narrowing it to confessions only and requiring proof the statements meet that standard.
- Eduardo Felipe Labrada Machado, 24, is jailed without bond on a first-degree murder charge and has entered a written plea of not guilty, with a court hearing set for Oct. 21.
- Investigators say the Circle K clerk left the Ormond-by-the-Sea store to retrieve a recently purchased handgun and then fired 24 shots at Officer David Jewell.
- The sheriff has already publicized portions of Machado’s statements, and the arrest affidavit quotes him acknowledging he “knew what he did was wrong.”
- A community candlelight vigil for Jewell is scheduled this evening at Edgewater Alliance Church following a Thursday procession.