"I didn't mean to': Fight over delay in leaving to get food leads to fatal shooting, police say

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WEBVTT WESH 2’S AMANDA OBER IS ON THE SCENE RIGHT NOW. AMANDA, WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED SO FA AMANDA: I AM AT A CRIME SCENE RELATED TO THE SHOOTING ON BOUGANVILLA DRIVE, NEAR ESTREDGE, WHERE OFFICERS HAVE BLOCKED OFF A HOME WITH CRIME TAPE. WE ARE UNCLEAR WHAT THEY SCENE PLAYS -- WE ARE UNCLEAR WHAT ROLE THIS SCENE PLAYS IN THE SHOOTING. WHAT I’VE LEARNED IS AROUND 5:00 TONIGHT, THEY WERE CALLED TO A REPORT OF MULTIPLE GUNSHOTS BEING FIRED IN THIS AREA. NOT FAR FROM HERE, AN ARRIVING OFFICER WAS ABLE TO STOP A CAR, A BLACK SUV THAT WAS DESCRIBED BY THE NUN 11 -- BY THE 911 CALLER. POLICE SAY THERE WAS AT LEAST ONE, POSSIBLY TWO OTHER PEOPLE IN THE CAR AND ONE OF THEM RAN FROM THE VEHICLE BEFORE IT CAME TO A STOP. POLICE BELIEVE ALL FO THE PEOPLE -- POLICE BELIEVE ALL OF THE PEOPLE IN THE SUV KNEW EACH OTHER AND THAT THIS WAS NOT A RANDOM CRIME. AT THIS POINT, THEY DO NOT KNOW WHAT THE MOTIVE WAS, BUT THEY WANT TO TALK TO THE PERSON WHO RAN FROM THE SUV.

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Authorities made an arrest after a man found with a gunshot wound inside a vehicle in Rockledge died.Fredrick Treveon Smith Jr. has been charged with manslaughter and carrying a concealed firearm.Authorities said the victim and another man made plans to pick up Smith to get something to eat together in Rockledge.According to an arrest report, when the pair arrived to pick up Smith, the victim called and sent text messages to Smith, telling him to hurry up.When Smith finally got into the vehicle, the trio left the area. Officials said that, as the victim was driving, he and Smith got into a fight over the delay in leaving.The argument turned into a physical fight, causing the third man to yell at the pair to stop fighting and to grab the steering wheel of the car.Police said the victim stopped the car on Estridge Drive and got out of the vehicle, followed by Smith, and the two continued their fight.When the other man got out of the car, he told police he heard one gunshot. He told authorities he heard the victim say, "Damn, brah, you shot me.' "Smith told the victim that he hadn't meant to shoot him, according to an arrest report.Smith and the other man picked up the victim and put him into the back seat of the vehicle. They agreed to drop Smith off at a home on Bougainvillea Drive, police said.Deputies said that, when Smith left the vehicle, he took two guns with him and went inside the home. An arrest report said that's when Smith's mother left the home to speak with the other man. Authorities said she told him to take the victim to the hospital while she called the victim's parents.As the other man was driving on Fiske Boulevard, he was pulled over by an officer who was responding to reports of the shooting, police said.Officers said the victim, who had been shot in the abdomen, was taken to Rockledge Regional Medical Center, where he was later pronounced dead.