ORMOND-BY-THE-SEA, Fla. - An off-duty Edgewater Police Officer was ambushed, shot and killed in the doorway of a Circle K gas station Monday afternoon in Ormond-by-the-Sea by a clerk who worked there, according to Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood.

"An assassination" is how Sheriff Chitwood described the shooting in a Monday night press conference, citing surveillance video of the moments before, during, and after the shooting. You can watch the full press conference in the video player above.

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What we know:

The shooting was reported around 4 p.m. on Monday at a Circle K gas station near Ocean Shore Blvd. and Wisteria Drive in Ormond-by-the-Sea, VSO said.

Sheriff Chitwood said the off-duty officer, identified as Officer David Jewell, walked into the Circle K conv

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