Brian Nickolas Collins, a 30-year-old father of 10, was shot and killed on September 8, 2024, in the parking lot of a McDonald’s on LPGA Boulevard in Daytona Beach, Florida. The incident began as a road rage dispute in the drive-thru after a minor collision between Collins’ vehicle and another car. According to the incident report, Collins exited his vehicle and struck the other driver through the window; that driver later said Collins had a knife and shot him once, fatally wounding him in the chest.

Collins’ girlfriend, Cassie Barnette, said the encounter escalated within 20 to 30 seconds and that she performed CPR but Collins died at the scene. The suspected shooter, a 40-year-old man, called 911 and was briefly detained but not arrested; investigators recovered the firearm from the shooter’s vehicle trunk. Collins’ family describe him as kind and generous and are raising funds for funeral costs and his children.

Does anyone have information about the events in that McDonald’s parking lot that evening?