Family vacation ends with son allegedly shooting father

Published 9:03 am Tuesday, July 18, 2017

PERRY, Ga. (AP) — The Georgia Bureau of Investigation says an Alabama family was on the way back from a Florida vacation when a feud between a father and a son led to a homicide.

GBI Special Agent in Charge JT Rickerson tells local media the family decided to leave their Orlando vacation early because the father, 40-year-old Daniel Lee Young, and son, 21-year-old Deontae Leqwan Young, had been fighting. Rickerson says at some point in the evening on July 11, Deontae Young fired two shots at his father, killing him.

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Rickerson says the continuing argument on the drive home turned physical on I-75 just north of Byron.

There were eight people in the car, including three young children.

Deontae Young was arrested and charged with murder. It’s unclear if he has an attorney.