Daytona 911

A Tennessee man who was shot on Interstate 4 near Deltona Wednesday night said he was driving in the left lane when a pickup truck came up behind him, according to a 911 call.

A turtle crashed through the windshield of a vehicle on Interstate 95 near Port Orange on Wednesday morning hitting a woman in the head and sending her to the hospital, authorities said. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A caller reports the fatal head-on collision that claimed the lives of two Wisconsin siblings on I-95 near Daytona Beach. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Volusia County law enforcement tracks a speeding carjacking suspect on I-95 just before a head-on collision that killed two Wisconsin siblings. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A Port Orange man was charged with attempted first-degree murder after chasing a woman. shooting at her and repeatedly ramming her vehicle, police said. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

An armed, suicidal man called a friend in Maryland to say he had shot himself. The friend called DeLand 9-1-1 to report it, which led to an armed standoff with DeLand police, Volusia County Sheriff's deputies, a bomb squad, and an ultimately peaceful resolution with the unwounded man. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On Tuesday Volusia County firefighters were called to Bear Paw Lane and Bright Way around 1:30 p.m. to reports of a white Mercedes Benz on fire.A body was found inside. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A dispute over McDonalds French fries led to a fight in the lobby of the restaurant on International Speedway Boulevard in Daytona Beach.

Volusia County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested a DeBary man Tuesday on a charge of aggravated assault after he intentionally coughed on a retail store employee, claiming social distancing because of the coronavirus pandemic is “getting out of hand.”

DeLand police are working to find out how a man ended up dead, apparently murdered, deep in the woods off of Summit Avenue near West New York Avenue, officials said on Monday.

A 14-year-old Palm Coast boy was killed Thursday night when the driver of the motorcycle he was riding on lost control, left the road and struck a utility pole, according to a release from the Florida Highway Patrol.

Two men have been charged in the weekend shooting death of a man at a beachside motel, police said.

Drivers called in to report their vehicles had been shot at by another vehicle on I-4. Later reports came from at least 14 cars damaged by gunshots from a pellet or BB gun on Interstate 4 and Interstate 95 as they traveled through Volusia County and stretching up to St. Johns County

A Deltona man’s hand was blown off by a commercial firecracker that he lit up while inside a vehicle on Saturday, Volusia County deputies said.

An off-duty Orange County Sheriff’s deputy was walking his dogs when he said a pit bull attacked his dogs and threatened him, so he shot the pit bull, according to a report. The pit bull’s owner disputes that account.

A DeLand man accused of beating his girlfriend unconscious now faces a murder charge as the woman died on Monday night, police said.

A gunman who fatally shot a neighbor in the neck Monday morning died in an exchange of gunfire with two officers, police said.

A retired corrections officer, angry her son would not answer the phone, got into a physical fight with him, aimed a gun at him and fired, Volusia sheriff’s deputies said, but the son grabbed the gun, narrowly avoiding getting shot in the head.

Two DeLand residents and a Kissimmee man were the three people killed Sunday when a twin-engine plane crashed near DeLand, according to a report.

One caller says the former owner of a dog stole it and he fired at the man's truck. Second caller says he never meant to give up the dog, and he got shot at. Who actually owns the dog is unclear, but the shooter was arrested.

A man called the Volusia County Sheriff's Office claiming to be holding three British Airways flight attendants hostage at Daytona Beach International Airport Monday. Problem: British Airways doesn't fly to Daytona. Also, the airport wasn't open yet.

Gregory Ramos, 15, accused of killing his mother after an argument over a poor grade, made this 9-1-1 call to report a burglary he admitted later was staged with the help of two friends, investigators said.

Daytona Beach police say a man is suspected of burglarizing a boardwalk concession stand and handing out cotton candy, soda and other treats to passersby. Nine gallons of ice cream, three trays of caramel apples, three trays of candy apples, 12 bags of cotton candy, six two-liter bottles of soda, 13 boxes of candy, two boxes of Oreo cookies, four boxes of Twinkies and four boxes of frozen bananas.

A patient was airlifted to a Daytona Beach hospital after being electrocuted Thursday morning near a construction site in Palm Coast.

A Daytona Beach woman was charged with second-degree murder after stabbing a man with a folding knife during an argument over drugs, police said.

A DeLand man who broke into a house, stole a Gatorade and took a shower was kicked out by the homeowner and was standing on the back porch naked when authorities arrived to arrest him, deputies say.

Former Bethune-Cookman head football coach Brian Jenkins was arrested on Sunday on charges stemming from a domestic dispute, according to the Port Orange Police Department.

A DeLand woman was killed on Tuesday after her car drove off the road and plunged into the Halifax River near the east end of the Orange Avenue bridge in Daytona Beach, police said.

A homeless Daytona Beach man shot his mother’s boyfriend while the man was lying in bed shortly after he was told he could stay on the couch, DeLand police investigators said. This call is stopped before the fatal shot.

Robert Mosley was on his morning walk in a Port Orange neighborhood on Sunday morning when he heard a lot of meowing but could not see the cats.

Daytona Beach police are investigating a Monday afternoon shooting that left a man with gunshot wounds to his arm and abdomen, officials said.

Neighbors attempted to rescue a woman trapped inside, but the heat and smoke were too intense, fire chief says One person was found dead after a travel trailer caught fire and exploded in a Port Orange RV park Thursday night, firefighters said.

A motorist called dispatch to report a toddler on the highway. The boy's parents were high on drugs at home, Volusia County sheriff's deputies said.

A person critically injured in a mobile home fire Tuesday morning in DeLand was on oxygen, police said.

A caller was just the latest to spot a black bear that has been traveling all over southern Volusia County in the last few days.

A wife called for help removing a woman from the couple's boat because the woman was having an affair with her husband.

A black man was celebrating Mother’s Day with his white wife at a restaurant near Edgewater when another man walked up and asked him if he was from Africa and whether it was “Africa Day,” according to a charging affidavit. The racial confrontation resulting in the arrest of three men - two on hate crimes charges - only got uglier with fists flying and two men hurling the n-word, according to the affidavit.

An Edgewater man who had a role in the fatal attack of a pair of spring breakers 21 years ago called 9-1-1 to say he was going to go shoot himself. After a lengthy standoff with Volusia County deputies, during which he shot at a helicopter, he was taken into custody.

A man was shot during an apparent dispute outside Angelo’s Pizza early Wednesday morning, authorities said. 

In the days before he grabbed his rifle and jumped a pharmacy counter at a Walgreens in Daytona Beach, Louis Curler said he felt as if he was being followed. He said odd things would happen to him, like the images on his phone's screen would inexplicably change. At one point he called Holly Hill Police after he felt threatened by a man with a gun but police only found Curler and no one else.

Ashlie Hicks, a clerk for the Flagler County Sheriff's Office, was driving to work Tuesday when she saw smoke coming from a Bunnell home, the Sheriff's Office said. She called it in and was able to help the three adults inside -- who were not aware the house was on fire -- out safely.

A gunman armed with an assault-style rifle jumped the pharmacy counter at the downtown Walgreens on Tuesday and appeared to be shooting up some drugs with a hypodermic needle when he was confronted by police.

A DeLand man stabbed his nephew four times with a 6-inch fillet knife for taking too long in the bathroom and claimed the younger man also made him feel disrespected, police said.

About 20 males were seen on Facebook video punching and kicking a man identified as a T-shirt shop worker in the Volusia Mall.

Curtis Gray, 18, was found with a gunshot wound to his abdomen lying in the parking lot of a laundromat in Bunnell. A suspected shooter and two associates were arrested the next day.