Man shot son on Father's Day, New Smyrna Beach police say Eugene Blackwell Sr. held on no bond at Volusia Jail 
 
 EVAN LAMBERT IN ORANGE COUNTY. THANK YOU. IT'S FATHER'S DAY. FATHER'S DAY. AND HE SHOT HIS SON. YOU'VE GOT IT. YOU GOT THE WHOLE STORY. STRONG WORDS FROM THE GRANDFATHER OF A TEEN THAT POLICE SAY WAS SHOT BY HIS OWN FATHER. THAT FATHER WENT BEFORE A JUDGE THIS AFTERNOON ON ATTEMPTED MURDER CHARGES AND WAS DENIED BOND. AS AMAKA UBAKA TELLS US IT STARTED AS THE TEEN TRIED TO DEFEND HIS MOTHER FROM HIS FATHER'S ABUSE. Reporter: A TEEN INTERVENED TO SAVE HIS MOM FROM HIS FATHER'S ABUSE BUT POLICE SAY WHILE HE WAS DEFENDING HIS MOM, HIS DAD PICKED UP A GUN AND SHOT HIM MULTIPLE SOMETIMES. EUGENE BLACKWELL, JR. RAN FROM HIT HOUSE DOWN THE STREET, UP HERE TO THIS HOME WHERE HE COLLAPSED RIGHT HERE IN THE GRASS. THE GUY HAS BEEN SHOT. HE'S IN MY DRIVEWAY. Reporter: A NEIGHBOR'S FRANTIC CALL TO 911 AFTER POLICE SAY A TEEN WAS SHOT FOUR TIMES BY HIS OWN FATHER. THE BODY, THE LEG, THE BULLET, EVERYWHERE. THE YOU GO UNLOADED ON HIM. POLICE SAY 45-YEAR-OLD EUGENE BLACKWELL, SR. STARTED ARGUING WITH HIS WIFE WHEN SHE BROUGHT UP A DIVORCE AND THAT'S WHEN SHE SAYS BLACKWELL GRABBED HER BY THE THROAT AND THEIR SON, EUGENE BLACKWELL, JR., INTERVENED. HE TOLD HIS MOTHER TO LEAVE THE HOUSE AND SHORTLY AFTER THAT BLACKWELL SHOT HIS 18-YEAR-OLD SON MULTIPLE TIMES. JUSTIN AVIS HEARD THREE SHOTS. RAPID FIRE, THREE SHOVES BANG, BANG, BANG. ONE RIGHT AFTER ANOTHER. SCARY TO SEE THIS HAPPEN SO CLOSE TO HOME. Reporter: WHILE THE TEEN RAN FOR HOPE BLACKWELL DROVE OFF TO THIS INTERSECTION WITH ANOTHER NEIGHBOR FOLLOWING CLOSE BEHIND. HE WENT DOWN A DEAD END ROAD AND I PARKED AT AN INTERSECTION AND WATCHED THAT DEAD END ROAD. Reporter: THE TRUCK WAS ABANDONED BUT SEVERAL HOURS LATER BLACKWELL TURNED HIMSELF INTO POLICE WHERE HE WAS ARRESTED FOR ATTEMPTED MURDER. AMAZING SOMETHING LIKE THAT CAN HAPPEN ON FATHER'S DAY. ACCORDING TO THE ARREST AFFIDAVIT THERE WAS A HISTORY OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE THROUGHOUT THE 23 YEARS THAT THIS COUPLE WAS TOGETHER. BLACKWELL'S WIFE ALSO SAYS HER HUSBAND PHYSICALLY ABUSED THEIR TEEN SON IN THE PAST. POLICE SAY THEY'RE STILL LOOKING FOR THE GUN THAT WAS USED IN THE SHOOTING BUT THEY DID GO INSIDE THE HOME AND FOUND MORE THAN A 
 
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 A man shot and critically injured his teenage son during a family argument in New Smyrna Beach on Father's Day, according to police. 
 
 [LISTEN: 911 call released in New Smyrna Beach shooting] 
 
 New Smyrna Beach police said Eugene Blackwell Sr., 46, shot his 18-year-old son, Eugene Blackwell Jr., four times around 6:15 p.m. Sunday. 
 
 According to police, Blackwell had been fighting with his wife at their home and choked her when she brought up the possibility of divorce. 
 
 The wife left the home as Blackwell Jr. intervened, and a short time later, his father shot him, police said. 
 
 "The guy's been shot," a neighbor told 911. "He's sitting here in my driveway. ... The guy just unloaded on him." 
 
 Blackwell Jr., who was shot in his chest area, hip, thigh and elbow, was airlifted to Halifax Health Medical Center in Daytona Beach. 
 
 Police said Blackwell Sr. drove away from the home after the shooting but later turned himself in to authorities. 
 
 Blackwell Sr. was arrested on charges of battery and attempted first-degree murder. He was being held without bond at the Volusia County Jail. 
 
 Watch Local 6 News and stay with ClickOrlando.com for more on this story. ||||| As an 18-year-old man ran from his New Smyrna Beach house bleeding from four gunshot wounds, his father stepped outside, pointed a handgun and fired one more shot, police said. 
 
 Eugene Blackwell Sr. shot his son Eugene Blackwell Jr. at 6:34 p.m. on Father’s Day while the two were inside their Edward Street home, New Smyrna Beach Sgt. Eugene Griffith said. 
 
 The final shot missed the fleeing teen. 
 
 The younger Blackwell, who just graduated from New Smyrna Beach High where he was a star weightlifter, had just broken up a fight between his father and his mother, Windy Blackwell, Griffith said, and the elder Blackwell was not pleased with the interference. 
 
 “He shot his son four times,” Griffith said Monday morning. “It escalated after the mother left the house.” 
 
 The elder Blackwell was arrested early Monday and charged with attempted first-degree murder. He was being held without bail Monday at the Volusia County Branch Jail. 
 
 Neighbor Richard Tredeaux told investigators that after he heard the initial gunfire coming from the Blackwell house, he saw Blackwell Jr. running from the residence. Tredeaux said he saw Blackwell Sr. emerge from the home and point something at the teenager. He heard another gunshot and then the elder Blackwell yelled out, “Yeah (expletive deleted) how do you like that?” the arrest report states. 
 
 Griffith said Blackwell Jr. was airlifted to Halifax Health Medical Center in Daytona Beach in critical condition. He was listed in satisfactory condition on Monday, said Tangela Boyd, hospital spokeswoman. 
 
 Sgt. Griffith said Blackwell Jr. interrupted his parents when their argument turned physical early Sunday evening. According to the arrest report, Blackwell Sr. grabbed his wife by the neck after he asked her whether she had been talking to a man named “Frank.” 
 
 Windy Blackwell, 42, told police the family had a pleasant Father’s Day. She told police her husband then went out to visit a friend and that when he returned he started asking her about “Frank.” Windy Blackwell denied talking to anyone named “Frank,” but did tell her husband that she wants a divorce, the report states. She said her husband grabbed her by the throat and that’s when her son intervened, the report shows. 
 
 Windy Blackwell said her husband has been abusive throughout their 23-year relationship and that he has been abusive with their son, the report states. Court records show Blackwell Sr. has been arrested several times on charges of battery and domestic violence. He was convicted of battery in 1992. There are two other children in the family, but Windy Blackwell said they were not home when the fight erupted. 
 
 The mother told police that Blackwell Jr. told her to leave the house. After she left reluctantly, Blackwell Sr. turned on his son, Griffith said. When the mother returned to the residence a few minutes later, though, she learned that her son had been shot and that he was being taken to the hospital. She talked to Blackwell Jr. before he was taken away and he told her that he was fine, the report states. 
 
 Blackwell Sr. had taken off in his Dodge pickup, police said. Another neighbor, Justin Drury, told police that he saw the elder Blackwell speed away in his truck. Drury, who along with Tredeaux, called 9-1-1, followed the suspect until he abandoned his vehicle on Duss Street, a dead-end road, the report states. 
 
 In his 9-1-1 call, Drury told the dispatcher, “You’re gonna love this — I’m following the suspect.” 
 
 Blackwell Jr. ended up on Tredeaux’s driveway at the 700 block of Edward Street. Tredeaux said the teen yelled, “He shot me! He shot me! My dad shot me! Call 9-1-1!” as he ran down Edward. Tredeaux, who said he teaches shooting sports at the Boy Scouts camp in Paisley, said he grabbed a chair for the teenager and tried to calm him down as he called 9-1-1. 
 
 “He was shot all over the body,” Tredeaux told the sheriff’s dispatcher. “He says he can’t breathe.” 
 
 In the 9-1-1 recording, Tredeaux could be heard repeatedly telling the moaning teenager to “stay calm” and “stay with me.” 
 
 Drury’s wife, Tami, told police that she also saw the victim running and holding his side. Tredeaux said he was able to help Blackwell Jr. and keep him calm because, “I took emergency preparedness with the Boy Scouts and various police departments in the area.” He said police told him not to discuss the shooting or the case. 
 
 Griffith said Blackwell Sr. shot his son in the abdomen, the leg, the hip and the arm. 
 
 Investigators were present when the teen was in surgery and were told by the doctor that one bullet had struck several organs and another bullet was lodged in his hip and was too dangerous to remove. The doctor said Blackwell Jr. was also shot in the right arm, and that was a “through and through shot,” the report states. 
 
 Blackwell Sr. tried to surrender at the Volusia County Branch Jail later Sunday night, but was taken back to New Smyrna Beach police headquarters. Investigators attempted to interview him just after midnight Monday, but he refused to talk and said he wanted an attorney, the report states. Blackwell Sr. was denied bail by a judge at his first appearance hearing at the jail on Monday afternoon. 
 
 The younger Blackwell helped the New Smyrna Beach High School weightlifting team win a state title in April in Class 2A by finishing second in the 183-pound division. ||||| Officer Brian Moore, a 25-year-old cop from Long Island, was shot in the cheek in Queens Saturday, authorities said. 
 
 A plainclothes city cop was shot in the face in Queens Saturday when the ex-con cousin of a former New York Giant opened fire into his unmarked patrol car, authorities said. 
 
 Officer Brian Moore and his partner were driving through Queens Village when they spotted the suspect “adjusting an object in his waistband” near the corner of 212th St. and 104th Road about 6:15 p.m, Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said. 
 
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 The officers pulled up behind the suspicious man — identified as Demetrius Blackwell, the younger cousin of former Giants cornerback Kory Blackwell — and tried to question him. 
 
 Without warning, Blackwell whipped out a gun and squeezed off at least two rounds into Moore’s car, Bratton said. 
 
 “He immediately opened fire on them before they had time to get out of the vehicle,” Bratton said at a solemn Saturday night press conference. 
 
 Put more succinctly, “They were gonna stop him and he just opened up on them,” added a police source. 
 
 Police are on the scene near the corner of 212th St. and 104th Road in Queens Village where the plainclothes officer was shot. (Theodore Parisienne for New York Daily News) NYPD officers search for weapons on the scene after a cop, identified as Officer Brian Moore, was shot in the face Saturday. (Bruce Cotler for New York Daily News) Police do a house to house search for weapons after an arrest in the shooting of a cop Saturday in Queens. (Bruce Cotler for New York Daily News) The 105th Precinct is abuzz with activity Saturday night in the wake of one of its officers being shot that day. (Jeff Bachner for New York Daily News) Sources said a suspect was taken into custody in the shooting of an officer in Queens Village. (Jeff Bachner for New York Daily News) 
 
 THREE NABBED IN BROOKLYN AFTER MAN AIMS GUN AT COPS 
 
 Moore, 25, was struck once in the cheek. His partner, Erik Jansen, 30, was uninjured and immediately radioed for assistance. 
 
 The Long Island-based Moore — who hails from a family of cops and joined the force in 2010 — was rushed to Jamaica Hospital in a patrol car. 
 
 He was listed in critical but stable condition — and underwent surgery late Saturday night. “He was shot in the cheek and it came out the other,” a source said. 
 
 Moore was placed into a medically induced coma, a source said. 
 
 A surgeon said the full extent of Moore’s injuries would not be known for at least 24 hours. 
 
 Police arrested Demetrius Blackwell, a 35-year-old ex-con, sources said. The suspected gunman is the cousin of former Giants cornerback Kory Blackwell. (NFL/AP) 
 
 NYPD OFFICER SHOT IN FACE BY EX-CON IN QUEENS DIES 
 
 Mayor de Blasio praised the wounded cop’s bravery. “Our hearts are with his family,” de Blasio said. 
 
 “It is a painful day for all of us. It is a painful day for all New Yorkers. It's a painful day for all members of the NYPD.” 
 
 Moore’s father and uncle are both retired NYPD sergeants. 
 
 One of Moore’s Massapequa neighbors, who said she has known the wounded cop his entire life, described him as “an all-around good kid.” 
 
 “My daughter went to the prom with him,” said Joan Olton, 56. 
 
 Demetrius Blackwell in custody for the shooting of #NYPD Sergeant from 105 pct. Thx @keck1157 (Ret. NYPD) for pic. pic.twitter.com/2uoCE0MHe8 — John Cardillo (@johncardillo) May 3, 2015 
 
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 “My son is just distraught,” Olton added. “They were supposed to watch the (Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao) fight together.” 
 
 Blackwell, who occasionally stayed with relatives in the area, fled the scene after the shooting — but was captured 90 minutes later inside a neighbor’s house. 
 
 "He jumped over the fence and put the gun in his pants,” said a witness who asked to remain anonymous. “He ran down the street. The police came and we showed them where he ran." 
 
 A 19-year-old man who lives in the 212th Place home said the suspect showed up as if he didn’t have a care in the world. 
 
 The teen didn’t realize Blackwell was the suspect until cops rushed to the house, ordered out his family members and then led away the career criminal in cuffs. 
 
 NYPD Surgeon Eli Kleinman speaks at Jamaica Hospital, where 25-year-old NYPD Officer Brian Moore was in critical but stable condition Saturday night after being shot in the cheek. (Theodore Parisienne for New York Daily News) Moore was rushed to Jamaica Hospital and was in critical but stable condition Saturday night. (Theodore Parisienne for New York Daily News) 
 
 “The way he was acting I didn’t think he would do anything like that,” the neighbor told the Daily News, declining to give his name. “I’m mad upset. If I knew, he wouldn’t be in my house.” 
 
 Officers were still scouring the scene early Sunday in search of the gun. 
 
 LUPICA: OUTRAGE IN SHORT SUPPLY WHEN A COP IS THE VICTIM 
 
 Blackwell has nine prior arrests — including two separate assaults on police officers, sources said. Once in custody he immediately “asked for his mom and a lawyer,” a source said. 
 
 Reached Saturday night, a relative of Blackwell’s was overwhelmed after hearing he was arrested for allegedly shooting a cop. 
 
 “Oh Lord, oh Lord,” the woman said before hurrying off the phone. 
 
 Moore joined the NYPD in 2010. The shooting sparked a house-to-house search before a suspect was taken into custody. (Bruce Cotler for New York Daily News) 
 
 Blackwell served several years in prison on attempted murder charges for firing into a person’s car in August 2001 during an attempted robbery, officials said. He was eventually released from the Clinton Correctional Facility in upstate Dannemora in June 2008. 
 
 In prison, Blackwell was found to have “poor institutional adjustment problems,” said a state Department of Corrections spokeswoman. 
 
 At the time of Saturday’s shooting, he was wanted by police on a criminal mischief charge stemming from an incident last November, sources said. 
 
 Two people who grew up with Blackwell said he had a rocky relationship with his star athlete cousin. 
 
 Kory Blackwell was on the Giants roster from 1997 to 1998 before leaving the NFL in 2001 after brief stints with the Cleveland Browns, Oakland Raiders and Jacksonville Jaguars. 
 
 “They’re cousins, but they don’t see eye to eye,” said Marlo Vaughn, 43, a truck driver. “Kory even bought him a music studio. He wanted him to take his music more seriously.” 
 
 Police gather at the scene in Queens Village where a plainclothes police officer was shot in the head. (Bruce Cotler for New York Daily News) Police Commissioner Bratton arrives at the scene where the police officer was shot. (Theodore Parisienne for New York Daily News) Police scour the scene where the shooting occurred. (Bruce Cotler for New York Daily News) Police vehicles park near the site where a police officer was shot. (Amanda Barrett/AP) 
 
 Kory Blackwell could not be reached. 
 
 Demetrius Blackwell, who suffers from severe epilepsy, went to Bayside High School and has a 3-year-old daughter, friends said. 
 
 The shooting sparked a massive police manhunt. Officers sealed off exits to the Belt Parkway in the hope of containing the shooter, sources said. 
 
 Area resident Alexis Davis, 18, said she heard three deafening shots. 
 
 “Boom, boom, boom,” recalled Davis who lives around the corner from the shooting. 
 
 “It happened so sudden. I was scared. Then there were sirens and police everywhere. The police were saying a cop was shot. “ 
 
 Moore was wounded on the corner of 212th St. and 104th Road in Queens Village after getting into a confrontation with the assailant, sources said. (Google) 
 
 Her neighbor, Abesh Goolsarran, said officers were swarming the neighborhood. 
 
 “There’s cops everywhere but I don’t know what’s going on,” said Abesh Goolsarran, 24. 
 
 “I see a SWAT team truck with lights on. I see police dogs. They’re all around my house.” 
 
 The shooting comes at a time of heightened tensions between police and civilians following a spate of cop-involved deaths of black men across the nation. 
 
 The incident marked the fifth NYPD officer shot since last December. 
 
 Officers Rafael Ramos, 40, and Wenjian Liu, 32, were executed on Dec. 20 while sitting in their patrol car outside a Brooklyn housing project. 
 
 The gunman — Ismaaiyl Brinsley, 28 — shot himself in the head on a nearby subway platform as cops closed in on him. 
 
 Hours before he carried out the double slaying, the career criminal boasted on social media that he was “putting wings on pigs today” to avenge the police-involved deaths of Eric Garner in Staten Island and Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. 
 
 On Jan. 5, two plainclothes cops were shot in the Bronx while responding to a grocery store robbery. The officers — Andrew Dossi, 30, and Aliro Pellerano, 38 — were approaching a suspect when his accomplice opened fire. 
 
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– Police say a Florida teen stopped his parents from fighting on Father's Day and was shot four times for his efforts, the Daytona Beach News-Journal reports. Eugene Blackwell Jr., 18, a star weightlifter, separated his mom from the elder Blackwell, 45, and got her out of the house. Then the father allegedly unloaded on Eugene, shooting him in the chest, elbow, hip, and thigh, reports WKMG. "He was shot all over the body," said a Smyrna Beach neighbor who called 911. "He says he can’t breathe." The neighbor could be heard telling the young man "stay calm" and "stay with me." Meanwhile another neighbor followed the alleged shooter, who had driven off in a Dodge pickup. "You’re gonna love this—I’m following the suspect," the man told 911 before stopping at the mouth of a dead-end street where the father had parked. The suspect later turned himself in and was charged with attempted murder. This morning, Eugene was undergoing surgery for multiple bullet wounds at a hospital in Daytona, the Orlando Sentinel reports. So what started the fight? The mother brought up the idea of a divorce and the elder Blackwell began choking her, police say.