Volusia Medical Examiner: Woman shot to death in greater New Smyrna Beach a homicide

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NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- An autopsy performed this morning confirmed as expected that the woman shot and killed Tuesday night in front of a home at the intersection of Oak and Washington streets died as a result of multiple gunshot wounds and the medical examiner has ruled her death a homicide, a Volusia County Sheriff's spokesman said.

A few new details were released about the victim described as white, 46 years of age, and known to law enforcement. She was found in a walkway in front of a small wood-frame house at 290 Oak St., just west of the New Smyrna Beach city limits, when Sheriff's deputies responded at 9:45 p.m. to several 9-1-1 calls by neighbors reporting they heard gunfire and that a woman was shot in the head.

"The Volusia County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed that the victim died from multiple gun-shot wounds, Sheriff's spokesman Gary Davidson said Wednesday after the autopsy.

"Paramedics with EVAC ambulance who responded to the shooting along with Sheriff’s deputies noted when they arrived that the victim had a faint pulse, but died moments later at the scene."

Sheriff's investigators are withholding the woman's name while they continue attempts to notify her family, the spokesman added.
Her killer remains at large and the Sheriff's Office is following all possible leads, Davidson said.
She is the third homicide victim of 2011. All three were killed with handguns.