DeLand police said Monday a man arrested in a Sunday night shooting incident shot his cousin in an apparent confrontation over a glove.
Police are working to determine what the glove issue is all about, said DeLand police Sgt. Chris Estes.
According to the arrest report Victor Franklin, Jr., 19, of Orange City, shot his cousin Jayden Thompson, 14, in a bedroom at 509 West Hubbard Ave. in DeLand around 6:10 p.m. on Sunday.
Franklin was charged with aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and was being held Monday on $20,000 bail.
Police arrived at the home to find Thompson outside of the home clutching his chest, the report states, adding that Thompson said he had been shot by his cousin, later identified as Franklin.
Thompson was taken to Halifax Health Medical Center where he was treated and released Sunday night, police said.
In speaking with police, Thompson said that he was in his bedroom eating pizza rolls when Franklin came into the room and pointed a gun at him. Franklin asked Thompson about a glove and when Thompson said he didn't know what Franklin was talking about, his cousin charged the slide of the pistol, ejecting a bullet, saying the round was for Thompson, investigators said.
Franklin then pointed the pistol at Thompson's head but what he said next was redacted in the report.
Thompson said he slapped the handgun away and the next thing he knew he was shot, the report details.
Although Franklin said he didn't meant to shoot Thompson, his cousin said he believed Franklin "intentionally meant to shoot him," officers wrote in their report.
Thompson told police that Franklin always carried a gun and joked a lot by pointing the gun at people. Franklin had pointed the gun at Thompson on Saturday in a confrontation about a cigar, detectives said.
Franklin, who ran from the scene of the shooting, was turned in to police by his mother and father, who drove him to the police station, according to DeLand investigators.
Franklin's statement to police is redacted from the report but he agreed to take police to the area where he threw away the firearm, the report shows.
Police searched the area they described as "a known high crime area with several reports of shootings and narcotics violations," a half-mile from where Franklin shot Thompson, but did not find the weapon, the report said.
Franklin told police he found the gun on Thursday and had it hidden in the woods. On Sunday, he said he retrieved the firearm with the intention of selling it but instead went to Thompson's home, police said.
Franklin denied threatening Thompson or confronting him about a glove, police said.
The shooting is the second to occur on Hubbard Avenue and the third in the neighborhood in two weeks.
On May 9, in a home invasion, Michael Dixon, 22, was shot and killed at 612 Ambrose Street.
Investigators said Dixon’s mother reported that at 4:52 a.m. she heard someone kicking in her door and when she opened her bedroom door, she saw a masked, armed man walking in the hallway, according to a call she made to 9-1-1.
The woman escaped through her bedroom window and heard at least three shots and her son screaming, she told dispatchers.
Police found Dixon lying face down and rushed him to Florida Hospital DeLand. Dixon was transferred to Halifax Health Medical Center in Daytona Beach where he died of his gunshot wounds.
And on May 6, officers responded near the corner of South Stone Street and West Hubbard Avenue after 9 p.m. where they found 18-year-old Delvaughn Robinson with a gunshot wound to one of his legs, police said.
Witnesses told police Robinson was walking with friends when gunshots were fired from an unknown direction and he was hit in the leg.
The days-apart shootings prompted community leaders to gather at a prayer vigil organized by the DeLand Clergy Coalition on Thursday at Mt. Calvary Free Will Baptist Church in DeLand, where several DeLand-area religious leaders said there has been too much violence and murder and the best way to reduce it in West Volusia is by helping police and not following any street code. DeLand Police Chief Jason Umberger joined them to speak to about 100 people who packed the church.
Estes said Sunday that the investigation into the latest shooting is ongoing. He said although no arrests have been made in the May 6 and May 9 shootings, investigators continue to work the cases.
Anyone with information about the shootings is asked to contact the DeLand Police Department at 386-626-7400 or submit an anonymous tip at delandpd.com.