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Judge Grants Limited Sealing of Accused Clerk’s Confession in Edgewater Officer Killing

The order conditions any sealing on proof the statements are confessions under law.

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.