DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — A Florida convenience store employee has been arrested and charged with fatally shooting an off-duty police officer, authorities said.

Eduardo Labrada Machado, 24, shot David Jewell, 45, shortly after arriving for work at the Daytona Beach-area Circle K gas station Monday afternoon, according to the Volusia County Sheriff's Office.

Labrada Machado has been charged with first-degree murder. Court and jail records didn't list an attorney for him.

Labrada Machado told investigators that he was having a bad day on his drive to work and thought about shooting Jewell. When Labrada Machado arrived at work and saw Jewell, Labrada Machado used a handgun he had recently purchased to shoot Jewell multiple times at close range, officials said.

Jewell had been a police officer

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