Florida father gunned down while intervening in fight after dropping daughter off for first day of school

A Florida father who had just dropped off his daughter for her first day of elementary school was shot and killed after trying to intervene in a fight between a man and a woman, police and reports said.

Daryl Hill, 56, now leaves behind his wife, two adult children and his 10-year-old daughter following the incident Tuesday morning near Wolf Lake Elementary School in Apopka, according to FOX 35 Orlando.

"He’s got the biggest heart in the entire world," Damon Hill, his son, told the station.

"He loved everybody...

He just loved his fellow person, and he was very non-judgmental." The Orange County Sheriff’s Office said the shooting unfolded after witnesses described seeing a man and woman fighting inside a vehicle, before the vehicle crashed and the brawl spilled outside.

BYSTANDER SHOT DEAD AFTER INTERVENING IN FLORIDA MAN, WOMAN'S ROADSIDE FIGHT; MURDER SUSPECT WAS OUT ON BOND "Witnessing that altercation, a Good Samaritan attempted to intervene and was shot.

That man, 56-year-old Daryl Alexander Hill, later died at the hospital," the sheriff's office said.

"Mr.

Hill was simply trying to help someone who appeared to be in distress when he was shot by 26-year-old Raul Lionel Vazquez.

Vazquez was arrested on a charge of Second-Degree Murder ," it added.

Suzanne Hill, Daryl’s wife, told Spectrum News 13 that her husband was a "friend, family and stranger: he cared for everybody and helped everybody and always stepped in, which I think is ultimately what took his life." Police said the shooting happened at Plymouth Sorrento and West Ponkan roads in Apopka, which is down the road from the elementary school.

Before Hill was shot, Vazquez and a woman, Kaidy Honaker, were seen by multiple witnesses fighting inside their white Chevy Silverado pickup truck when it crashed into a black Lexus, according to an arrest affidavit obtained by Fox News Digital.

The two continued their heated altercation on the sidewalk.

VIDEO SHOWS MOMENTS BEFORE ARMY VETERAN WAS FATALLY SHOT IN WALMART PARKING LOT DISPUTE Vazquez, who was seen shirtless and wearing no shoes, got in Honaker's face and appeared to be yelling and pointing at her, the affidavit said.