VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA)— An off-duty Edgewater police officer was shot and killed on Monday at an Ormond-by-the-Sea gas station.

An employee at the Circle K was seen on surveillance footage walking out of the store shortly after the victim, David Jewell, 45, walked in around 4:08 p.m.

The shooter, Eduardo Felipe Labrada Machado, 24, went to his car to retrieve a jacket, then walked back into the store and shot Jewell multiple times, killing him, the Volusia Sheriff's Office announced.

It is believed the victim and Machado knew each other.

“David was a guy that we could rely on for anything, never heard a bad thing about him, and he’s going to be a tremendous loss to the Edgewater Police Department,” Acting Edgewater Police Chief Charles Geiger said in a media briefing at the scene.

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