FLEMING ISLAND, Fla. — Clay County detectives are questioning a person of interest in a deadly shooting at a Fleming Island restaurant.
The shooting happened in the drive-thru at the Whataburger Restaurant on County Road 220.
Investigators were at the Whataburger for more than seven hours trying to figure out how and why a 22-year-old was shot to death at the drive-thru.
An early-morning trip to a fast-food drive-thru turned deadly on New Year’s Day when an altercation lead to the shooting death of Daniel Grady, 22.
Henri Raske comes to the Whataburger often, and lives in the same Eagle Harbor neighborhood where Grady lived.
"That stuff doesn't happen out here this is Fleming Island. It’s pretty laid back so for something like that to happen it’s like wow that's close to home," Raske said.
According the Clay County Sheriff's Office, a What-a-Burger employee called them just after two in the morning and said there was an argument between two men in the drive-thru that ended with gunfire.
Officers are questioning a person of interest but they’re not calling him a suspect yet. They’re waiting on search warrants and their completed investigation to determine if the shooting was self-defense.
As a father of a young man around the same age as Grady, Raske says it breaks his heart that an argument had to escalate to such a senseless act of violence.
"That's just a waste, absolute waste. You know 22 years old, getting in an argument in the drive-thru over something stupid. Come on guys, [you] can't just walk away. Somebody's got to pull out a gun and kill somebody," Raske said.
Action News talked to a former employee of What-a-Burger who worked there for three years. She says Grady was a regular customer who came in almost every night.
She says he was a sweet kid and he will be dearly missed.
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