DeLAND, Fla. – One man is dead and another man was arrested on a murder charge in connection with a stabbing outside a DeLand convenience store, according to police.
Officers said they found Terrill Zimmerman, 39, stabbed multiple times after a car crashed in the lawn of a home near the intersection of South Clara and West Bedford avenues.
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Police said officers and EMTs performed lifesaving measures, but Zimmerman died on the way to the hospital.
Investigators discovered Zimmerman had been stabbed outside a convenience store on South Florida Avenue, according to a news release.
During the course of their investigation, officers said they identified Mack Smith Jr., 60, as a suspect and tracked him to a home near the store. Investigators said they executed a search warrant and found several pieces of evidence from the stabbing inside the man’s home, but Smith was not there.
Police found Smith a short time later and arrested him, records show.
Smith is jailed without bond while facing a second-degree murder charge.