An elderly Florida woman initially charged with first degree murder for fatally shooting her terminally ill husband in a murder-suicide pact she couldn’t complete was indicted this week on a lesser charge. A Volusia County grand jury indicted Ellen Gilland, 76, on charges of assisting self-murder/manslaughter for shooting 77-year-old Jerry Gilland in his hospital room …
A 76-year-old Florida woman charged with first degree murder in the shooting death of her terminally ill husband — which police say was the result of a murder-suicide agreement — made her first court appearance on Sunday and was ordered held without bond. Ellen Gilland fatally shot Jerry Gilland, 77, in his Daytona Beach hospital …
Update: A woman who allegedly shot and killed her terminally ill husband in his Daytona Beach hospital room has surrendered to police. Daytona Beach Police said 76-year-old Ellen Gilland surrendered at about 3 p.m., and she could face a first degree murder charge. “Upon arrival, our officers were directed to the 11th floor, where they …
A Florida grandfather has been charged with child neglect after he returned a rental car to Daytona Beach International Airport and forgot his toddler granddaughter was in the back seat. Hertz employees found the little girl in the locked vehicle in the car return lot, where she’d been for about 45 minutes on Monday, the …
A Florida woman was shot and killed Tuesday morning by her boyfriend, who intended to shoot her ex-boyfriend. Daytona Beach police said Chad Keene, 37, fled from the scene of the shooting and was located in the passenger seat of a car traveling in nearby Ormond Beach late Tuesday afternoon, WESH reported. The shooting incident …
Florida police arrested a 19-year-old man, charging him with the shooting death last week of another 19-year-old he was afraid was going to out him as gay. Daytona Beach police said Telan Mann was found dead on the sidewalk with multiple gunshot wounds on June 23, WESH reported. Jakari Webb has been charged with first …
Daytona Beach police are searching for an 11-year-old boy who hasn’t been seen since he got of his school bus Tuesday afternoon. Connor Robertson is described as 5 feet 3 inches tall and about 130 pounds with blond hair, the Daytona Beach Police Department said. He was wearing a black hooded sweatshirt and gray pants …
Florida police have charged a man in the gruesome stabbing deaths of Terry and Brenda Aultman, who had been riding their bicycles home from downtown Daytona Beach. Daytona Beach Police Chief Jakari Young tweeted that Jean R. Macean had been arrested. The Aultmans were found dead on a residential street early Sunday morning with multiple …
An elderly Florida woman found dead after a house fire in Daytona Beach over the weekend was the landlord and aunt of the man arrested and charged with her murder. Viola Miller, 70, had told the suspect — 33-year-old Deandre Anderson — to move out because she was afraid of him, a witness who lived …
Firefighters battling a house fire in Daytona Beach, Florida, Sunday morning found the remains of an adult woman on the ground outside. Police had initially responded to the location for a domestic violence call but immediately called for fire assistance when they saw flames coming out of the house, WNDB reported. Firefighters found the woman’s …
Police found hundreds of pornographic videos — many of them involving children — on a Google account belonging to a Florida college student. Ethan Edlund, 19, turned himself in to the Chicago Police earlier this week after Daytona Beach Police concluded nearly a year of investigation. Edlund, a student at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, has been …
A manager at a popular Daytona Beach restaurant was beaten to death by a man he met on a dating app, the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office said Sunday. Bobby Scott, 63, was reported missing by his husband on January 18 after he left their home the day before and never returned, the Daytona Beach News …
