Man shot son on Father's Day, New Smyrna Beach police say Eugene Blackwell Sr. held on no bond at Volusia Jail 
 
 EVAN LAMBERT IN ORANGE COUNTY. THANK YOU. IT'S FATHER'S DAY. FATHER'S DAY. AND HE SHOT HIS SON. YOU'VE GOT IT. YOU GOT THE WHOLE STORY. STRONG WORDS FROM THE GRANDFATHER OF A TEEN THAT POLICE SAY WAS SHOT BY HIS OWN FATHER. THAT FATHER WENT BEFORE A JUDGE THIS AFTERNOON ON ATTEMPTED MURDER CHARGES AND WAS DENIED BOND. AS AMAKA UBAKA TELLS US IT STARTED AS THE TEEN TRIED TO DEFEND HIS MOTHER FROM HIS FATHER'S ABUSE. Reporter: A TEEN INTERVENED TO SAVE HIS MOM FROM HIS FATHER'S ABUSE BUT POLICE SAY WHILE HE WAS DEFENDING HIS MOM, HIS DAD PICKED UP A GUN AND SHOT HIM MULTIPLE SOMETIMES. EUGENE BLACKWELL, JR. RAN FROM HIT HOUSE DOWN THE STREET, UP HERE TO THIS HOME WHERE HE COLLAPSED RIGHT HERE IN THE GRASS. THE GUY HAS BEEN SHOT. HE'S IN MY DRIVEWAY. Reporter: A NEIGHBOR'S FRANTIC CALL TO 911 AFTER POLICE SAY A TEEN WAS SHOT FOUR TIMES BY HIS OWN FATHER. THE BODY, THE LEG, THE BULLET, EVERYWHERE. THE YOU GO UNLOADED ON HIM. POLICE SAY 45-YEAR-OLD EUGENE BLACKWELL, SR. STARTED ARGUING WITH HIS WIFE WHEN SHE BROUGHT UP A DIVORCE AND THAT'S WHEN SHE SAYS BLACKWELL GRABBED HER BY THE THROAT AND THEIR SON, EUGENE BLACKWELL, JR., INTERVENED. HE TOLD HIS MOTHER TO LEAVE THE HOUSE AND SHORTLY AFTER THAT BLACKWELL SHOT HIS 18-YEAR-OLD SON MULTIPLE TIMES. JUSTIN AVIS HEARD THREE SHOTS. RAPID FIRE, THREE SHOVES BANG, BANG, BANG. ONE RIGHT AFTER ANOTHER. SCARY TO SEE THIS HAPPEN SO CLOSE TO HOME. Reporter: WHILE THE TEEN RAN FOR HOPE BLACKWELL DROVE OFF TO THIS INTERSECTION WITH ANOTHER NEIGHBOR FOLLOWING CLOSE BEHIND. HE WENT DOWN A DEAD END ROAD AND I PARKED AT AN INTERSECTION AND WATCHED THAT DEAD END ROAD. Reporter: THE TRUCK WAS ABANDONED BUT SEVERAL HOURS LATER BLACKWELL TURNED HIMSELF INTO POLICE WHERE HE WAS ARRESTED FOR ATTEMPTED MURDER. AMAZING SOMETHING LIKE THAT CAN HAPPEN ON FATHER'S DAY. ACCORDING TO THE ARREST AFFIDAVIT THERE WAS A HISTORY OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE THROUGHOUT THE 23 YEARS THAT THIS COUPLE WAS TOGETHER. BLACKWELL'S WIFE ALSO SAYS HER HUSBAND PHYSICALLY ABUSED THEIR TEEN SON IN THE PAST. POLICE SAY THEY'RE STILL LOOKING FOR THE GUN THAT WAS USED IN THE SHOOTING BUT THEY DID GO INSIDE THE HOME AND FOUND MORE THAN A 
 
 NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. - 
 
 A man shot and critically injured his teenage son during a family argument in New Smyrna Beach on Father's Day, according to police. 
 
 [LISTEN: 911 call released in New Smyrna Beach shooting] 
 
 New Smyrna Beach police said Eugene Blackwell Sr., 46, shot his 18-year-old son, Eugene Blackwell Jr., four times around 6:15 p.m. Sunday. 
 
 According to police, Blackwell had been fighting with his wife at their home and choked her when she brought up the possibility of divorce. 
 
 The wife left the home as Blackwell Jr. intervened, and a short time later, his father shot him, police said. 
 
 "The guy's been shot," a neighbor told 911. "He's sitting here in my driveway. ... The guy just unloaded on him." 
 
 Blackwell Jr., who was shot in his chest area, hip, thigh and elbow, was airlifted to Halifax Health Medical Center in Daytona Beach. 
 
 Police said Blackwell Sr. drove away from the home after the shooting but later turned himself in to authorities. 
 
 Blackwell Sr. was arrested on charges of battery and attempted first-degree murder. He was being held without bond at the Volusia County Jail. 
 
 Watch Local 6 News and stay with ClickOrlando.com for more on this story. ||||| As an 18-year-old man ran from his New Smyrna Beach house bleeding from four gunshot wounds, his father stepped outside, pointed a handgun and fired one more shot, police said. 
 
 Eugene Blackwell Sr. shot his son Eugene Blackwell Jr. at 6:34 p.m. on Father’s Day while the two were inside their Edward Street home, New Smyrna Beach Sgt. Eugene Griffith said. 
 
 The final shot missed the fleeing teen. 
 
 The younger Blackwell, who just graduated from New Smyrna Beach High where he was a star weightlifter, had just broken up a fight between his father and his mother, Windy Blackwell, Griffith said, and the elder Blackwell was not pleased with the interference. 
 
 “He shot his son four times,” Griffith said Monday morning. “It escalated after the mother left the house.” 
 
 The elder Blackwell was arrested early Monday and charged with attempted first-degree murder. He was being held without bail Monday at the Volusia County Branch Jail. 
 
 Neighbor Richard Tredeaux told investigators that after he heard the initial gunfire coming from the Blackwell house, he saw Blackwell Jr. running from the residence. Tredeaux said he saw Blackwell Sr. emerge from the home and point something at the teenager. He heard another gunshot and then the elder Blackwell yelled out, “Yeah (expletive deleted) how do you like that?” the arrest report states. 
 
 Griffith said Blackwell Jr. was airlifted to Halifax Health Medical Center in Daytona Beach in critical condition. He was listed in satisfactory condition on Monday, said Tangela Boyd, hospital spokeswoman. 
 
 Sgt. Griffith said Blackwell Jr. interrupted his parents when their argument turned physical early Sunday evening. According to the arrest report, Blackwell Sr. grabbed his wife by the neck after he asked her whether she had been talking to a man named “Frank.” 
 
 Windy Blackwell, 42, told police the family had a pleasant Father’s Day. She told police her husband then went out to visit a friend and that when he returned he started asking her about “Frank.” Windy Blackwell denied talking to anyone named “Frank,” but did tell her husband that she wants a divorce, the report states. She said her husband grabbed her by the throat and that’s when her son intervened, the report shows. 
 
 Windy Blackwell said her husband has been abusive throughout their 23-year relationship and that he has been abusive with their son, the report states. Court records show Blackwell Sr. has been arrested several times on charges of battery and domestic violence. He was convicted of battery in 1992. There are two other children in the family, but Windy Blackwell said they were not home when the fight erupted. 
 
 The mother told police that Blackwell Jr. told her to leave the house. After she left reluctantly, Blackwell Sr. turned on his son, Griffith said. When the mother returned to the residence a few minutes later, though, she learned that her son had been shot and that he was being taken to the hospital. She talked to Blackwell Jr. before he was taken away and he told her that he was fine, the report states. 
 
 Blackwell Sr. had taken off in his Dodge pickup, police said. Another neighbor, Justin Drury, told police that he saw the elder Blackwell speed away in his truck. Drury, who along with Tredeaux, called 9-1-1, followed the suspect until he abandoned his vehicle on Duss Street, a dead-end road, the report states. 
 
 In his 9-1-1 call, Drury told the dispatcher, “You’re gonna love this — I’m following the suspect.” 
 
 Blackwell Jr. ended up on Tredeaux’s driveway at the 700 block of Edward Street. Tredeaux said the teen yelled, “He shot me! He shot me! My dad shot me! Call 9-1-1!” as he ran down Edward. Tredeaux, who said he teaches shooting sports at the Boy Scouts camp in Paisley, said he grabbed a chair for the teenager and tried to calm him down as he called 9-1-1. 
 
 “He was shot all over the body,” Tredeaux told the sheriff’s dispatcher. “He says he can’t breathe.” 
 
 In the 9-1-1 recording, Tredeaux could be heard repeatedly telling the moaning teenager to “stay calm” and “stay with me.” 
 
 Drury’s wife, Tami, told police that she also saw the victim running and holding his side. Tredeaux said he was able to help Blackwell Jr. and keep him calm because, “I took emergency preparedness with the Boy Scouts and various police departments in the area.” He said police told him not to discuss the shooting or the case. 
 
 Griffith said Blackwell Sr. shot his son in the abdomen, the leg, the hip and the arm. 
 
 Investigators were present when the teen was in surgery and were told by the doctor that one bullet had struck several organs and another bullet was lodged in his hip and was too dangerous to remove. The doctor said Blackwell Jr. was also shot in the right arm, and that was a “through and through shot,” the report states. 
 
 Blackwell Sr. tried to surrender at the Volusia County Branch Jail later Sunday night, but was taken back to New Smyrna Beach police headquarters. Investigators attempted to interview him just after midnight Monday, but he refused to talk and said he wanted an attorney, the report states. Blackwell Sr. was denied bail by a judge at his first appearance hearing at the jail on Monday afternoon. 
 
 The younger Blackwell helped the New Smyrna Beach High School weightlifting team win a state title in April in Class 2A by finishing second in the 183-pound division.
– Police say a Florida teen stopped his parents from fighting on Father's Day and was shot four times for his efforts, the Daytona Beach News-Journal reports. Eugene Blackwell Jr., 18, a star weightlifter, separated his mom from the elder Blackwell, 45, and got her out of the house. Then the father allegedly unloaded on Eugene, shooting him in the chest, elbow, hip, and thigh, reports WKMG. "He was shot all over the body," said a Smyrna Beach neighbor who called 911. "He says he can’t breathe." The neighbor could be heard telling the young man "stay calm" and "stay with me." Meanwhile another neighbor followed the alleged shooter, who had driven off in a Dodge pickup. "You’re gonna love this—I’m following the suspect," the man told 911 before stopping at the mouth of a dead-end street where the father had parked. The suspect later turned himself in and was charged with attempted murder. This morning, Eugene was undergoing surgery for multiple bullet wounds at a hospital in Daytona, the Orlando Sentinel reports. So what started the fight? The mother brought up the idea of a divorce and the elder Blackwell began choking her, police say.