APOPKA, Fla. \u2014 Twenty-four hours after an Apopka man was killed after stepping in to help after a couple got in a car accident and was in a physical altercation, the community is remembering him for his willingness to help those in need.<\/p>\n
Daryl Hill stepped in to help intervene after he had dropped his child off for the first day of school at Wolf Lake Elementary on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Shortly after, he witnessed a man and woman physically fighting inside a car after a car had crashed on Plymouth Sorrento and West Ponkan roads, just down the street from the school.<\/p>\n
He stopped to help and was then shot and killed, according to the Orange County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was just an incredible, kind, giving, caring, loving person to everybody,\u201d his wife Suzanne Hill said.<\/p>\n
Suzanne and Daryl Hill were married for 17 years.<\/p>\n
\u201cFriend, family and stranger: he cared for everybody and helped everybody and always stepped in, which I think is ultimately what took his life,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Suzanne Hill said the family is doing a private celebration of life to honor Daryl.<\/p>\n
Community members shared with Spectrum News 13 that Daryl\u2019s actions impacted the Wolf Lake community profoundly, including those who did not know Daryl but heard about his willingness to help others following his death.<\/p>\n
George Fields is a parent of a Wolf Lake Elementary School student.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t really know the full story, but understanding that, you know, life is precious, and you just don\u2019t know what can happen,\u201d he shared.<\/p>\n
Kasha McCloud, another Wolf Lake Elementary parent, echoed a similar message.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just crushing. Any of us could be in that same situation, and like, my heart really goes out to them. It\u2019s so sad. You know, you step up. You\u2019re a good Samaritan. You try to be a good person. You\u2019re a parent, maybe a husband, a dad, and you lose your life behind that. My heart really goes out to the family,\u201d McCloud said. \u201cI just pray that, like, we could all come together one as a community for the family.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Sheriff\u2019s Office has identified and arrested the suspect, 26-year-old Raul Lionel Vazquez, charging him with second-degree murder involving a firearm.<\/p>\n
State Attorney Monique Worrell\u2019s office disclosed Vazquez\u2019s criminal history, which includes a charge from last year of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon \u2014 for which the state attorney is still set to take Vazquez to trial on that charge \u2014 with the trial set to begin on Sept. 22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"APOPKA, Fla. \u2014 Twenty-four hours after an Apopka man was killed after stepping in to help after a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2967,24498,115,1335,139,141,140,277,835],"class_list":["post-370188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-app-public-safety","tag-jordan-mead","tag-news","tag-orange-county","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-public-safety","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370188","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=370188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}