Deandre Smith, 24, of Daytona Beach was fatally shot on May 10, 2015 while driving across the Oakridge Boulevard bridge in the early morning. Occupants of another car fired multiple shots at his vehicle. Police said the attack appeared to stem from confrontations Smith had been involved in over the preceding weekend; two separate incidents on Saturday and Sunday were mentioned but prosecutors did not disclose specific details.

Following the killing, Smith’s girlfriend, Kaiyana Riddick, who lived with him and their 3-year-old daughter at his grandmother’s house, reported feeling targeted. On July 2, 2015 she heard gunfire at the home and found a bullet hole in the back window of her car; she said a black Dodge Charger with tinted windows had pulled up next to her on Beville Road a day earlier but could not identify anyone inside. Investigators also looked into a mid-June shooting involving two families near a Daytona Beach park as possibly connected.

Police identified potential links to Marquel Copeland and his brother Maurice Copeland and said they were pursuing leads, but no arrests had been announced in the reports cited. Did anyone in the Daytona Beach area see or hear anything around Oakridge Boulevard bridge that morning or have information about the black Dodge Charger?