DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Detectives have arrested and charged two men in connection to the killing of a man at a Daytona Beach motel over the weekend.
- Jeffrey Schusky was found hurt at beachside motel
- Attack happened on North Atlantic Avenue
- Detectives arrested, charged 2 men Sunday, Monday
Officers were called out after 11 p.m. Saturday to the Happy Holiday Motel along North Atlantic Avenue where they found an unresponsive man with a single wound.
At the time, they said he had been stabbed.
Police say the manager at the motel, who lives there, answered their door after hearing "persistent knocking" to find Jeffrey Schusky bleeding and crawling on the ground outside the door.
I spoke with a man at the office of the hotel, he declined to talk about the stabbing from last night, as he washed away blood off the pavement of the parking lot. @MyNews13 pic.twitter.com/LCa1Ast6pj
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FFirst responders arrived minutes later but were unable to revive him.
Officers say Schusky was injured in the upper left side of his abdomen.
In a news release, however, police said, "… it is unclear what caused it or if that has anything to do with his death."
Schusky had been staying at the motel where he died. His mother told Spectrum News 13 that her son was a father and was well known in the Ormond Beach community where he was from. She also believes someone killed her son.
Karen Williams says she lives up the road and saw more than a dozen police vehicles outside the motel Saturday night.
She says this kind of crime in her typically quiet neighborhood makes her uneasy.
“I’ve seen police here before but not at that level," Williams said.
By Sunday morning, crime tape was still tied to nearby poles. Office staff at the motel hosed off pavement by the entrance, washing away what appeared to be blood.
On Tuesday, Daytona Beach Police said officers had arrested two men and charged them in Schusky's death.
Tarek Mneimne, 32, of Ocoee, and Taylor J. Holcomb-Barber, 27, of Ormond Beach, face charges of first-degree felony murder. Mneimne was taken into custody Sunday night, and Holcomb-Barber Monday night.
Detectives think Schusky was attacked during a drug-related robbery. Investigators initially said he'd been stabbed, but they later said Schusky had been shot.
Anyone with any information on the incident is asked to contact Det. Jayson Wallace at 1-386-671-5207 or WallaceJayson@dbpd.us regarding Case 2000-01195.