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NSBNEWS.net photos by Henry Frederick. Mark McConnell, a supervisor with Aftermath Inc., oversees a clean-up crew Sunday charged with sanitizing the bloody scene left by Saturday's fatal shooting of an armed robber at the Medicine Shoppe on North Dixie Freeway in New Smyrna Beach.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- At the Hill Brothers Tire Co. on North Dix
ie Freeway, a two-person crew was applying fresh brown paint to the building. Just up the street, another crew was removing blood-soaked carpeting from the inside of the Medicine Shoppe in the wake of Saturday's fatal shooting of an armed robber by a private security guard in plainclothes hired by the pharmacy after he pointed a gun at the pharmacist while demanding drugs.
"Unbelievable," one of the painters at the Hill Brothers said of the homicide.
A professional clean-up crew that specializes in homicides, suicides and other such potentially messy situations was brought in Sunday to remove blood-stained carpets and blood splatter eleswhere in the Medicine Shoppe resulting from the 10:15 a.m. shooting of a white masked man who demanded drugs. Police have not identified him nor have they the private security guard, reported to be a retired deputy. This was the third robbery of the pharmacy in each of the past three years.
An autopsy was scheduled over the weekend and police may release the names of the robber and the security guard today.
Mayor Sally Mackay said after Saturday's shooting that she would set up a meeting early today to meet with City Manager John Hagood and Police Chief Ronald Pagano to discuss concerns about citizen safety in what has been a two-week crime wave that has included a previou armed robbery of a pharmacy, a carjacking of two teenage girls, a car chase, a night prowler breaking into cars, an armed robbery and stabbing in a department store and the beating of a man for his money with a sawed-off shotgun.