{"id":37352,"date":"2023-10-18T14:41:28","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T18:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=37352"},"modified":"2023-10-18T14:41:32","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T18:41:32","slug":"davenport-man-arrested-in-fatal-shooting-of-kevin-berry-during-road-rage-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2023\/10\/18\/davenport-man-arrested-in-fatal-shooting-of-kevin-berry-during-road-rage-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"Davenport man arrested in fatal shooting of Kevin Berry during road rage incident"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On Tuesday, October 17, 2023, PCSO Homicide detectives arrested\u00a058-year-old Daniele Hamilton of Westwinds Drive in Davenport<\/strong>\u00a0and charged him with second-degree murder, discharging a firearm from a vehicle, shooting over a right-of-way, tampering with evidence, after an around-the-clock investigation that began around 2:15 a.m. on Sunday, October 15, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The victim, 58-year-old Kevin Berry, was heading to work in Polk County during the early morning hours on Sunday from his home in Altamonte Springs when he engaged in an altercation with another motorist on the I-4 off-ramp to US Hwy 27 in Davenport. The altercation was witnessed by at least one person, who told detectives they saw the victim and his white truck stopped in the middle lane of the off-ramp, yelling back and forth with an unknown person parked in a car behind the truck and in the right lane. Berry was found lying on the ground outside his truck with a gunshot wound and taken to a local hospital. He succumbed to his injury on Tuesday, October 17th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Detectives began collecting evidence from the scene and the surrounding area, including video footage. Detectives were led to the suspect\u2019s home in Davenport on Tuesday, October 17th<\/sup>, where they questioned Hamilton, who initially denied being involved and claimed he was a witness to the road rage incident. During a search warrant, detectives found Hamilton\u2019s .38 special revolver in his bedroom, and spent shell casings in the bedroom trash, at which time he said to the detectives, \u201cYou\u2019ve found what you need to find so we can go [to jail].\u201d Detectives took Hamilton into custody without incident and booked him into the Polk County Jail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy detectives investigate every homicide as if the victim were one of their own family members \u2013 they work around the clock, without sleep, and leave no stone unturned until they solve the case. I\u2019m very proud of them, and very disappointed in this man who simply could have driven away when engaged in an argument with the victim. Now he\u2019s charged with several felonies and is facing some serious prison time<\/em>.\u201d \u2013 Grady Judd, Sheriff<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daniele Hamilton\u2019s criminal history includes the following previous arrests:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1986 \u2013 arrested by Orlando Police for disorderly conduct<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1987 \u2013 arrested by Orlando Police for contempt of court<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1994 \u2013 arrested by the Lowndes County (GA) Sheriff\u2019s Office for possession of a controlled substance<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1995 \u2013 arrested by the Texas Highway Patrol for a drug money charge<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2005 \u2013 arrested by PSO for forgery and counterfeiting<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2006 \u2013 arrested by PCSO for violation of probation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2013 \u2013 arrested by the Orange County Sheriff\u2019s Office for robbery (downgraded to larceny) and battery<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Tuesday, October 17, 2023, PCSO Homicide detectives arrested\u00a058-year-old Daniele Hamilton of Westwinds Drive in Davenport\u00a0and charged him with second-degree murder, discharging a firearm from a vehicle, shooting over a… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[6359],"class_list":["post-37352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-davenport-man-arrested-in-fatal-shooting-of-kevin-berry-during-road-rage-incident"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}