A man was shot in the stomach on Sunday night in a dispute over living arrangements near DeLand and the shooter was in jail without bail, sheriff's officials said.

The victim, Larry Zimmerman, 46, had asked the accused shooter, Jeremy Blais, 30, who lived in a van in Zimmerman's front yard, not to bring unwanted trash around the home, sheriff's investigators said.

Blais was arrested and charged with attempted first-degree murder and being held Monday without bail.

“This was a shooting after a dispute about living arrangements at 118 West Palmetto,” sheriff’s spokesman Andrew Gant said Monday.

Gant said investigators were told Blais was upset after Zimmerman moved some of his property onto the driveway.

According to Gant, sheriff's deputies responded to reports of a shooting at the Palmetto Avenue home around 9:40 p.m. and found the victim lying inside the house with a gunshot wound to his stomach.

"The neighbors are fighting across the street and there has been a gunshot fired," a caller to 9-1-1 said. "They are yelling that somebody's been shot."

Witnesses said there was no altercation or confrontation before Blais fired at Zimmerman.

A report of the incident states Zimmerman and his girlfriend were walking toward the house when Blais walked toward them, pulled out a pistol hidden under a box, aimed at Zimmerman and shot him.

"My boyfriend's been shot," the girlfriend told 9-1-1 dispatchers. "A friend of his had a gun in his hand and shot him in the stomach."

The hysterical girlfriend kept urging Zimmerman to breathe, telling him he will be OK.

"He is shot in the stomach right above the belly button," Zimmerman's girlfriend reported.

Blais ran from the scene after the shooting and ended up at a nearby Denny’s restaurant on Woodland Boulevard, where he saw several people outside and asked for help, deputies said.

After the people directed Blais to a DeLand Police Department patrol vehicle parked across the street, Blais threw his handgun in a Denny’s trash can and went to the DeLand police officer, Gant said.

Zimmerman, who survived, was conscious and alert when units arrived at the home. He was airlifted to Central Florida Regional Hospital in Sanford, where he underwent surgery, Gant said.

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