Altoona

VOLUSIA COUNTY, Florida—A person of interest in the killings of two Lake County men has been booked into the Volusia County Jail and is being held on no bond.

Roger Myles Gilbert, 35 of Alabama, was arrested by Ormond Beach Police Department Friday “after an encounter with Ormond Beach police officers,” Lake County Sheriff’s Office Lt. John Herrell said early Friday evening.

Gilbert was arrested on charges of possession of a weapon by a convicted felon, grand theft of a firearm, carrying a concealed firearm and resisting an officer without violence, according to Volusia County Corrections online booking records.

Inside Lake is working to confirm the details of Gilbert’s “encounter” with OBPD, but an email to the agency was still unanswered late Friday night. A female person of interest was also involved in the encounter, but her name and status are unclear.

Gilbert is a person of interest in the deaths of David Thomas Mikell, 34 of Umatilla, and Shane Eugene Clements, 41, of Altoona. The two men were found dead from apparent gunshot wounds after Lake County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to 45918 Pennsylvania Road, Altoona around 9 p.m. Thursday night, Herrell said. Gilbert has not been arrested in connection to the deaths at this time.

ALTOONA, Florida—The Lake County Sheriff’s Office in investigating a double homicide that occurred around 9 p.m. Thursday, according to LCSO Lt. John Herrell.

LCSO responded to 45918 Pennsylvania Road on a report of two people shot and found David Thomas Mikell, 34 of Umatilla, and Shane Eugene Clements, 41, of Altoona, dead from apparent gunshot wounds, according to Herrell.

Neither one of the men live at the home, and the shootings were not a random act, Herrell said.

No one has been arrested for the crime and detectives are working leads and following up on information. No further details are being released at this time. If you have information, call LCSO at 352-343-9529 or Crimeline at 1-800-423-TIPS. Crimeline callers may be eligible for a reward.

ALTOONA, Florida—A woman who told Lake County Sheriff’s Office detective she found the largest knife she could and “I never said it was self-defense” was arrested Mother’s Day for two counts of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon after stabbing two people, according to an arrest affidavit.

 Shortly after 3:15 p.m. Sunday, LCSO responded to 20304 Green Wing Road in reference to a stabbing and found a large butcher knife with a blue handle, blood, and two victims; a female with a stab wound to her back and a man with a stab would to his left bicep, according to the affidavit. The woman was airlifted to Central Florida Regional Medical Center in Sanford and the man was airlifted to Ocala Regional Medical Center in Ocala for treatment.

LCSO detectives responded to the scene and to both hospitals to interview the involved parties and on scene found multiple areas of blood near a hot tub in the yard. A witness told LCSO she made prior arrangements with her daughter, Cheyenne Dawn Kee, 23, to retrieve the hot tub that was left at the home and earlier that day she requested the two stabbing victims to help her move the hot tub.

The two victims were loading the hot tub on a trailer when Kee showed up and was “visibly upset, shaking and yelling,” and asking why people were taking her hot tub, the affidavit states.

Kee’s mother told her the victims were just there to help and Kee began arguing with the female victim and her mother stepped in to separate them. Kee’s mother then got in her vehicle to leave, and she heard the male victim yell that he was bleeding. She rendered aid to the man and said he had a “significant” amount of blood coming from his bicep, the affidavit states.

Kee was interviewed by detectives and said she went inside the allow the pair the get the hot tub and while she was inside, she heard her mother and the female victim, “talking about her.” She went outside and argued with her mother and the woman, and her shirt was ripped during the altercation, and she claimed her mother punched her. Kee said she went inside to change and retrieved the largest knife she could find, went outside and stabbed the female victim in the back while she was loading to hot tub. The male victim tried to help the woman and Kee stabbed him too, according to the affidavit.

Kee acknowledged neither victim threatened her and reportedly said, “I never said it was self-defense.”

Kee was taken into custody and arrested for two counts of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon; she is being held in the Lake County Jail on $20,000 bond.