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.

"I know when I went to bed last night, my prayer was that he didn't feel anything, that the first shot killed him and everything else that happened afterwards," Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood said.

According to VSO, Machado told investigators he'd seen Jewell in the store several times and beli

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