- April 18, 2024
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When 38-year-old Daniel Douglas' girlfriend said she wanted to end the couple's relationship, he pointed a rifle at her and said, "If you say another word I’m going to shoot you," according to a Sheriff's Office report.
The incident began the night of June 19 as a verbal argument over rent at the couple's home on Tangerine Avenue in Daytona North, the western Flagler County community also known as the Mondex, the victim told deputies.
The victim called the Sheriff's Office at about 10:40 p.m. By that time, she said, Douglas had taken the rifle and left in a red Chevy Blazer.
The victim told deputies that Douglas had hit her in the past. When she said she was leaving him, Douglas began to "wreck the whole room," she told deputies. "She stated he picked up a plate and threw it beside the bed causing it to shatter, ripped up papers, flipped a table in the bedroom, and then picked up a rifle and aimed it at her," and threatened her, a deputy wrote in the report.
While deputies talked to the victim, another Mondex woman who lived a few miles away on Ash Street showed up at the home, asking for Douglas' cell phone. She told deputies that Douglas was at her home.
They went there and spoke to him, and he said he'd had an argument with his girlfriend that morning but didn't remember what it was about, and that he not only didn't point a firearm at her, but that he didn't own a gun.
The victim had shown deputies a protective sleeve she said Douglas had removed from the gun before aiming it at her, according to the report. When a deputy mentioned the sleeve to Douglas, he said he didn't know anything about it and that he'd been at the Ash Street woman's house since the morning.
Deputies charged him with aggravated domestic assault with a deadly weapon. He'd been released from jail by the evening of June 20 on $2,500 bond.
