Volusia County prosecutors announced Monday that they intend to seek the death penalty against a man accused of killing an off-duty cop at a Circle K gas station.

Eduardo Labrada Machado, 24, was indicted earlier Monday on a charge of first-degree murder in the killing of 45-year-old Edgewater Police Department officer David Jewell on Sept. 15 at the Circle K in Ormond-by-the-Sea where Labrada Machado worked, according to a news release from the local state attorney’s office.

State Attorney R.J. Larizza of Florida’s Seventh Judicial Circuit filed a notice of intent to seek the death penalty against Labrada Machado following the indictment. It also said Jewell had been shot 20 times. Labrada Machado is currently in custody at the Volusia County Jail, records show.

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