MAN’S SHOOTING STORY FULL OF HOLES

A 31-year-old man’s creative story about getting shot in the leg Sept. 1 because he was wearing gang colors in the wrong neighborhood fell apart Thursday. It turns out that the gunshot wound to his leg was accidentally self-inflicted, and he had made up the gang colors story to cover his own illicit drug activity. Kenneth Marrow’s tall tale was finally revealed when narcotics agents, Volusia County Sheriff’s investigators, and members of the FBI Safe Streets Task Force served a search warrant at his Deltona home Thursday morning. Marrow is now in jail on drug charges and could face additional charges related to making a false police report.

The West Volusia Narcotics Task Force was already aware of Marrow’s possible drug activity due to an anonymous tip and subsequent undercover investigation. The agents were in the process of having a search warrant on Marrow’s home completed and signed when the shooting incident occurred. The Task Force held off on executing the search warrant until after Marrow returned home from the hospital and the agents had a chance to coordinate with the Sheriff’s Office’s Deltona district investigator who was handling the shooting case. The search warrant was served about 9 a.m. Thursday. After narcotics agents went through the house, Marrow was charged with possession of a controlled substance, possession of cocaine, possession of marijuana under 20 grams, and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Investigators then spoke with Marrow concerning the previous week’s shooting incident. Marrow was on his way to see someone concerning a drug deal that day, he said. He had tucked a gun into his waistband, but when he walked out of his house the weapon slipped out and fell to the ground. It discharged, sending a bullet through his right leg. Not wanting law enforcement to learn about his illegal activity, he concocted a story about encountering a group of unknown men who accosted him about supposedly wearing gang colors and then shot him. (Previous release about the Sept. 2 shooting) can be found here:
http://www.volusia.org/sheriff/press/090137.htm.)

Marrow was transported to the Volusia County Branch Jail in Daytona Beach.