Daytona Beach, FL – Investigators are looking for a man who shot another man during a domestic argument near Bethune-Cookman University, prompting a campus alert.
The Daytona Beach Police Department says it happened around 9:20 PM Wednesday at the outside of a home on the 600 block of Magnolia Avenue.
The victim – a 35-year-old Daytona Beach man – was shot in the right arm and had to go to Halifax Health Medical Center in Daytona Beach for treatment.
Parts of the incident report were redacted, but it does show that the victim and his 25-year-old girlfriend were involved in some sort of argument just before he was shot.
According to the report, the victim told police he went to the home – owned by his girlfriend’s uncle – and that he got into the front passenger seat of a white Mercedes-Benz where she was in the driver’s seat and another man was sitting in a back seat.
The victim says it was the man in the back seat who pulled out a gun during the conversation and shot him after asking him “why you try my cousin”, per the report.
Police think the shooter fired 2 times but only one of the bullets hit the victim as he managed to scramble out of the vehicle. That bullet went through the man’s forearm and caused a bone fracture, according to the report.
Officers say they found a “large amount” of blood on scene as well as a shell casing from a .45 caliber bullet and 2 blood-covered bags, including one with a white powdery substance inside. The actual bullet itself wasn’t found at the scene, per police.
DBPD is searching for the vehicle as well as the victim’s girlfriend in an effort to identify the shooter, whom the victim claims he didn’t recognize.
Since the shooting was close to the BCU campus, the school sent an alert out to students asking them to stay indoors.
Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 888-277-8477 to remain anonymous and possibly qualify for a cash reward.
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