VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. – The family of an Edgewater police officer who investigators say was fatally shot by a gas station clerk at a Circle K has named the chain in a $20-million wrongful-death lawsuit, according to their legal team.

Officer David Jewell was shot and killed on Sept. 15 while off-duty at a Circle K in Ormond-By-The-Sea, where he had stopped to buy drinks after picking up his father-in-law from the hospital. David Jewell (Edgewater Police Department)

According to Volusia Sheriff Mike Chitwood, the clerk — 24-year-old Eduardo Machado — told deputies that he was having a bad day on his way to work and had already been thinking about shooting Jewell, ultimately doing so multiple times in the back of Jewell’s head.

“I will tell you — with 38 years of policing, homicide

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