DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- A 23-year-old man was shot to death in the 600 block of Verdell Street near South Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard at 6:49 p.m. Saturday, according to a story published in the Daytona Beach News-Journal. Headline Surfer was unable to reach anyone in the Daytona Beach Police Department to provide information about the shooting.
Michael Elijah Wynn, now 33, will have to wait until he's at least 58 years old before he has any hope of being released from prison for shooting his ex-girlfriend's lover multiple times outside a Daytona Beach apartment complex with one of the bullets still lodged in the victim's liver.DAYTONA BEACH -- A man's jealous rage has landed him in prison for a minimum of 25 years in prison for shooting his ex-girlfriend's beau.
It took a jury two and a half hours to find Michael Elijah Wynn guilty as charged to attempted second-degree murder with a firearm and aggravated battery with a firearm, both first-degree felonies, in the April 26, 2011, shooting of Carlton Jones Jr., who was dating his ex-girlfriend.
Because the near-killing involved a gun, Circuit Judge R. Michael Hutcheson sentenced Wynn to 30 years prison with a minimum mandatory of 25 years, immediately after the jury's verdict Wednesday in the three-day trial.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- The Daytona Beach Police Department under the supervision of Chief Mike Chitwood made a series of prostitution-related arrests this week, but Headline Surfer can't provide the public with its own news report because the 24/7 Internet newspaper is being excluded from press releases and arrest/incident reports going out to other media outlets.
The news of Derrick Henry's swearing in ceremony Wednesday night as mayor of Daytona Beach was trending in Google's News Directories as shown here in this snapshot graphic to the left. A snapshot at right shows 102 people accessing Headline Surfer as the Henry story was being updated.
DAYTONA BEACH -- Headline Surfer was the first media outlet to report the news of Derrick Henry's swearing in as Daytona Beach mayor and the story was trending in the Google online news directories and search engines.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Fresh off his election-day victory over then-City Commissioner Edith Shelley, Derrick Henry was administered the oath of office as Daytona Beach's new mayor by Circuit Judge Hubert Grimes in a packed commission chambers tonight.
DAYTONA BEACH -- Mayoral candidate Derrick Henry wants to see a united Daytona Beach that goes beyond the tourism marketed globally as the "World's Most Famous Beach" and center of motor racing with the Daytona 500, or as he emphasizes in his platform: "One City, One vision."
DAYTONA BEACH -- As shocking as retired pro wrestler Mike Graham's self-inflicted gunshot to the head during his visit to Daytona Beach for Biketoberfest is, he's just the latest in a long line of dead wrestlers used up and disposed of in the world of sports entertainment with suicide, homicide and athletes dropping dead in a culture of steroids, pills and alcohol abuse.
Headline Surfer will take a hard look at the dark side of wrestling in this special investigative series looking at the ups and downs of professional wrestling with the World's Most Famous Beach as a backdrop. You'll hear from a former professional wrestler who wrestled Graham many times in the squared circle as well as a few of the modern-day stars as to where pro wrestling is at with commentary from bloggers who follow it as well as sports psychologists. The series will begin later today with our multi-media presentation of stories, blogs, fast facts graphics, photos and videos.
Former pro wrestler Mike Graham, whose real name was Edward Gossett, was distraught over the suicide of his son at Biketoberfest two years ago, when he, too, took his own life Thursday during the biker rally in Daytona Beach. Graham's wrestling-promoter father killed himself in 1985.DAYTONA BEACH -- An incident report released by Daytona Beach cops, confirms former pro wrestler Mike Graham, visiting here for Biketoberfest, was found dead "lying face up" on a bed Thursday night in a North Halifax Drive home from an apparent self-inflicted "gunshot wound to the forehead."
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DAYTONA BEACH -- Perhaps the winning lottery ticket was not a big enough score for a man who reached into the cash register after the cashier opened the drawer and scooped up the cash before running off just before 4 p.m. Monday from the Sunoco, 2501 W. International Speedway Boulevard, Daytona Beach cops said.
Though there was a brief struggle after the man leaned over the counter and snatched a wad of cash, but the cashier was not hurt. Cops don't know how much cash he got away with.
