ORMOND-BY-THE-SEA, Fla. – A gas station clerk accused of fatally shooting an off-duty Edgewater police officer on Monday told deputies he was having a bad day on his way to work and thought about shooting the man earlier, according to new details released by the Volusia Sheriff’s Office.

The fatal shooting happened around 4 p.m. at a Circle K in Ormond-by-the-Sea.

The gas station clerk, 24-year-old Eduardo Machado, was arrested and faces a first-degree murder charge.

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According to the sheriff’s office, Machado “confessed to the murder” and had seen the Edgewater police officer, identified as 45-year-old David Jewell, in the store several times.

Machado told deputies he believed he may have had an argument with Jewell at some point in the past but coul

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