Keval Mehta, 40, a male from Spring Hill, was fatally shot just after 3 a.m. on August 20, 2025, after giving a former coworker a ride home from a bar in Spring Hill. Deputies were dispatched to Schering Street in Weeki Wachee and found Keval Mehta, 40, deceased from multiple gunshot wounds outside the suspect’s residence.
According to investigators, Keval Mehta, 40, and Evan Michael Stanley, 23, had run into each other at a bar earlier that night; when Stanley’s ride left, Keval Mehta, 40, male, offered to take him home. At the house, an argument reportedly erupted over a dog that Stanley had taken in when the men previously worked together. Stanley told deputies that Keval Mehta, 40, asked to see the dog, that he refused, and that Mehta made verbal threats. Stanley went inside, unlocked a safe, retrieved a rifle and a loaded magazine, then returned outside to confront him.
Stanley claimed he opened fire after seeing Keval Mehta, 40, male, reach into the trunk of his vehicle, believing he was reaching for a weapon. Detectives later reported that no firearm belonging to the victim was found in the vehicle, and that Stanley gave conflicting statements about the sequence of events. Keval Mehta, 40, was pronounced dead at the scene.
The Hernando County Sheriff’s Office arrested Evan Michael Stanley at the scene without incident and charged him with second-degree murder with a firearm. He was booked into the Hernando County Detention Center and held without bond as the investigation continued. Local coverage and incident logs corroborated the timeline: the 3:05 a.m. 911 call, the confrontation outside the Weeki Wachee home, and the death of Keval Mehta, 40, male, from Spring Hill.
Family and community notices later marked the loss of Keval Mehta, 40, male, noting his Spring Hill ties and date of death. Memorial pages and gun-violence trackers recorded his name and the circumstances, underscoring how a brief reunion between former coworkers spiraled into a fatal encounter on a quiet residential street.
