- November 17, 2024
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UPDATED 2:20 P.M. NOV. 17
A 25-year-old Daytona North woman was shot and injured in her home Saturday night.
Deputies arrived at the home of Tiffany Norman at aout 10:45 p.m. as rescuers were carrying Norman out of the home on a stretcher, according to a charging affidavit. She had been shot through the neck and was conscious after the shooting, but in critical condition. Rescuers flew her to Halifax Hospital for treatment.
Deputies arrested 27-year-old Jonathan Edwin Canales — her boyfriend and the man who reported the shooting — but not in connection with the shooting itself.
Instead, they charged Canales, who lived at the 6351 Cherry Lane mobile home with Norman and her three young boys, with three counts of child neglect for failing to secure his loaded firearms within the house. The children are ages 2, 5 and 7, according to the affidavit.
Canales had reported the shooting to dispatchers as an attempted suicide, according to a Sheriff's Office daily log report. Norman was conscious after the incident, but the Sheriff's Office will not dicslose what, if anything, she said about what happened, saying that information is part of an active investigation and exempt from disclosure under Florida law.
An emailed statement to the press from Sheriff’s Office Spokesman Commander Bob Weber included Canales’ arrest report, but said that “why the incident occurred is part of an active investigation” and “no one is in custody in connection with this incident.”
The charging affidavit is heavily redacted. It says the guns were found “on the floor just outside the unlocked bedroom door of the room that all three children were asleep in,” along with several magazines and live ammunition. “Any of the three children could have opened the door and had immediate access to those loaded firearms,” the report continues. “Access to these firearms by the children could have resulted in serious bodily injury or death to any of the three children.”
This story will be updated as more information becomes available.
