A fingerprint led to the arrest of a Central Florida church burglar.
According to Volusia County law enforcement, the fingerprint on a TV mount led to the identification and arrest of a suspect who broke into a DeLand church.
The Volusia Sheriff’s Office said it came back to Steven Shurr, a career offender with 10 prior burglary arrests.
Local deputies recently responded to a burglary at the DeLand Spanish SDA Church. They found pry marks on a door to the youth chapel, and a broken window, according to local law enforcement. Multiple TVs were stolen from the walls, along with speakers and other items.
The VSO Latent Print Unit identified a print of value from one of the TV mounts left behind.
According to the Volusia County Sheriff’s office, Shurr is not a parishioner of the church and would have no reasonable explanation for his fingerprints on the TV mount. While Shurr lives in Lake County, detectives learned at the time of the burglary, he was staying in a house about a quarter mile from the church.
Shurr was arrested by the Lake County Sheriff’s Office on his VSO warrant. He was released from prison in March 2025 after serving four years for burglary, grand theft, and failure to register as a career criminal. His criminal history includes 32 prior felony charges and 10 prior misdemeanors, according to VSO.
