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Man shot, killed victim sleeping on couch in Dunnellon home, deputies say

Brian Keron Welcome, 42, faces 2nd-degree murder charge

MARION COUNTY, Fla. – A man accused of shooting and killing a 41-year-old sleeping on the couch in a Dunnellon home in November has been arrested, according to the Marion County Sheriff’s Office.

Deputies said Brian Keron Welcome, 42, was arrested Thursday in the Nov. 28 fatal shooting of Eric Daugherty, 41.

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According to the Marion County Sheriff’s Office, investigators learned Welcome was in the home along Walnut Street when he stood up from a table in the living room and shot Daugherty, who was asleep on the couch.

Daugherty was found with a gunshot wound to the stomach and leg when someone returned to the home, according to a probable cause affidavit.

Deputies said one person in the home described the shooting as “cold-blooded” and that Welcome may have been under the influence of drugs.

Welcome faces charges of second-degree murder and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.

He is being held in the Marion County jail on no bond.


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