Police are searching for a man suspected of fatally shooting his wife and another man in a library parking lot in Vero Beach, Florida, authorities said Wednesday.
Vero Beach Police Chief David Currey identified the suspect Wednesday as Jesse Scott Ellis, 64, and said he killed his wife, Stacie Ellis Mason, and Danny Ooley, 56, in the parking lot of the Indian River County Main Library on Tuesday.
Surveillance footage shows Mason and Ooley — both Indian River County government employees — arriving separately before Mason got into Ooley’s car. Ellis then pulled in and fired multiple shots into the vehicle with an automatic weapon, Currey said.
Authorities believe the two were having an affair. Ooley was also married. Currey described the killings as a “targeted marital issue” and said Ellis is not believed to be a threat to the public.
“This was a crime of passion, two individuals that were apparently seeing
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