DELTONA, Fla. — A 19-year-old is facing charges in a February drive-by shooting that injured a 16-year-old boy who was babysitting an infant.
The Volusia County Sheriff’s Office arrested Miguel Miranda on Wednesday and charged him with aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and firing into an occupied dwelling on Trade Street in Deltona on Feb. 12, according to a report by deputies.
Sheriff’s office officials said the teen victim had been sleeping in a front bedroom with his 7-week-old nephew when two shots came through the window, one striking him in the arm. Officials said the infant was not injured.
Nearly two months later, officials said Miranda was also the alleged driver in a crash in Daytona Beach that killed three of his friends on April 1. According to the sheriff’s office, investigators had previously interviewed two of his friends who died about the February shooting.
Investigators found a 9mm handgun near the driver’s seat. Authorities identified that handgun as the same one that fired the bullet recovered from the bedroom in Deltona, according to a release from the sheriff's office.
A search warrant for historical cell phone data also showed Miranda’s phone was in the area of the shooting at the time it occurred, and left the county immediately after, the sheriff’s office said.
Miranda remains in the custody at the county jail with no bond.