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 that day, according to new details released by the Volusia Sheriff’s Office.

According to News4JAX sister station WKMG in Orlando, 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.

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 prior to the shooting.

Machado told deputies he was having a bad day on his way to work on Monday and had tho

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