{"id":274971,"date":"2026-05-18T10:47:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T10:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/274971\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T10:47:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T10:47:22","slug":"suspect-to-change-plea-in-officer-david-jewells-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/274971\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect to change plea in Officer David Jewell\u2019s killing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"sub-headline watch-truncate\" data-v-ea1137ca=\"\">Eduardo Machado, the man accused of shooting and killing off-duty Edgewood Police Officer David Jewell in September 2025, will be in court on Monday, where he is expected to change his plea. He was charged with first-degree murder in Officer Jewell&#8217;s death and had previously pleaded not guilty to the charge.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to online court records, Machado will be in court Monday for a plea hearing and a sentencing hearing. Details on the plea agreement were not revealed in those court documents.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting happened inside a Circle K convenience store in Ormond-by-the-Sea on Sept. 15, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Posted\u00a0May 18, 2026 6:16am EDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eduardo Machado, the man accused of shooting and killing off-duty Edgewood Police Officer David Jewell in September 2025,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-274971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}