Trespasser shot dead after stabbing Daytona Beach officer in the face

DAYTONA BEACH - A police officer was stabbed in the face by a felon trespassing at a gas station Thursday morning prompting him to fatally shoot the man, Daytona Beach police Chief Jakari Young said.

The officer suffered a cut to his left upper jaw line, said Daytona Beach police spokeswoman Carrie McCallister.

The suspect was identified as Benjamin Joseph Remley, 36, of Deltona. Florida Department of Corrections records show Remley did three years in prison for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. He was released Feb. 6.

On Thursday, Remley stabbed the Daytona Beach officer at a Sunoco gas station at 2501 W. International Speedway Blvd. at 9:11 a.m., McCallister said.

The officer, a veteran of the Daytona Beach Police Department, was released from Halifax Health Health Medical Center Thursday afternoon after getting treated for the knife cut to his jaw, McCallister said.

Remley, who was shot two times, died of his gunshot wounds, Young said.

Paramedics transporting Remley to the hospital said he was shot twice under the armpit, authorities said.

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Young said police were responding a second time to the gas station to deal with Remley trespassing at the business.

Police were first called to remove Remley from the gas station at 8:08 a.m. He left without incident, police said.

The second call about Remley was made at 9:09 a.m. On the second call, a sheriff's deputy was at the gas station as a patron and was alerted about the trespasser and informed that police were on their way, Young said.

Once the officer got on scene, he and the deputy approached Remley. A fight ensued when the deputy grabbed the suspect's left arm. The Daytona Beach officer's body camera was knocked off, Young said.

But the deputy's body camera shows how the man pulled a knife out of his pocket and stabbed the officer, said Sheriff Mike Chitwood.

"As the Daytona officer goes to grab his right arm that's when when you see he comes up with the knife," Chitwood said.

After he was stabbed, the officer drew his service weapon and fired two shots at the trespasser still armed with the knife, McCallister said.

Court records show Remley was arrested by Volusia County sheriff's deputies in May, shortly after his release from prison, and charged him with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

Remley had threatened to kill his mother and family while holding a knife, and then breaking a beer bottle during the disturbance, a Sheriff's Office report states.

The officer-involved shooting is under investigation by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, McCallister said.

This article originally appeared on The Daytona Beach News-Journal: Daytona officer shoots, kills man after being stabbed in face