Florida father gunned down while intervening in fight after dropping daughter off for first day of school

A Florida begetter who had conscionable dropped disconnected his girl for her archetypal time of simple schoolhouse was changeable and killed aft trying to intervene successful a combat betwixt a antheral and a woman, constabulary and reports said.

Daryl Hill, 56, present leaves down his wife, 2 big children and his 10-year-old girl pursuing the incidental Tuesday greeting adjacent Wolf Lake Elementary School successful Apopka, according to FOX 35 Orlando.

"He’s got the biggest bosom successful the full world," Damon Hill, his son, told the station. "He loved everybody... He conscionable loved his chap person, and helium was precise non-judgmental."

The Orange County Sheriff’s Office said the shooting unfolded aft witnesses described seeing a antheral and pistillate warring wrong a vehicle, earlier the conveyance crashed and the brawl spilled outside.

BYSTANDER SHOT DEAD AFTER INTERVENING IN FLORIDA MAN, WOMAN'S ROADSIDE FIGHT; MURDER SUSPECT WAS OUT ON BOND

Daryl Hill, center, leaves down his wife, 2 big children and 10-year-old daughter, according to FOX 35 Orlando. (Damon Hill/WOFL)

"Witnessing that altercation, a Good Samaritan attempted to intervene and was shot. That man, 56-year-old Daryl Alexander Hill, aboriginal died astatine the hospital," the sheriff's bureau said.

"Mr. Hill was simply trying to assistance idiosyncratic who appeared to beryllium successful distress erstwhile helium was changeable by 26-year-old Raul Lionel Vazquez. Vazquez was arrested connected a complaint of Second-Degree Murder," it added.

Suzanne Hill, Daryl’s wife, told Spectrum News 13 that her hubby was a "friend, household and stranger: helium cared for everybody and helped everybody and ever stepped in, which I deliberation is yet what took his life."

Police said the shooting happened astatine Plymouth Sorrento and West Ponkan roads successful Apopka, which is down the roadworthy from the simple school.

Before Hill was shot, Vazquez and a woman, Kaidy Honaker, were seen by aggregate witnesses warring wrong their achromatic Chevy Silverado pickup motortruck erstwhile it crashed into a achromatic Lexus, according to an apprehension affidavit obtained by Fox News Digital. The 2 continued their heated altercation connected the sidewalk.

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Daryl Hill, left, allegedly was changeable and killed by fishy Raul Lionel Vazquez connected Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026, successful Apopka, Fla. (Camil Reyes/WOFL; Orange County Sheriff's Office)

Vazquez, who was seen shirtless and wearing nary shoes, got successful Honaker's look and appeared to beryllium yelling and pointing astatine her, the affidavit said.

Two witnesses said they saw Hill riding a bicycle adjacent and told authorities that helium got progressive successful the argument, which led to Vazquez and Hill tackling each different into the bushes, per the affidavit.

According to the affidavit, Honaker joined the combat arsenic well, aboriginal saying she did truthful to propulsion Hill disconnected Vazquez.

An undated photograph of Daryl Alexander Hill and his wife, Suzy Hill. Hill leaves down a 10-year-old daughter. (GoFundMe)

After the combat successful the bushes, Hill began moving distant from Vazquez and Honaker, yelling "help" with his hands successful the air, the affidavit said.

Vazquez retrieved what was aboriginal determined to beryllium a shotgun from his pickup motortruck and fired 1 round, hitting Hill and causing him to autumn to the ground, according to the affidavit.

In an interrogation with investigators, Vazquez offered "many antithetic accounts" of what happened but said that Hill "was warring him and getting the amended of him," according to the affidavit.

At the clip of the shooting, Vazquez was retired connected enslaved for aggravated battle with a deadly weapon.

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FOX 35 reported that a justice has since revoked that enslaved and ordered him held without enslaved successful that lawsuit and for the second-degree execution charge.