What happened: Four Boynton Beach Police officers who sh0t a man armed with a machete in a public park last year were legally justified in their use of deadly force, a State Attorney’s Office review concluded.
Background: Shortly before 11 a.m. April 5, 2025, Edenson Jules, 31, of Boynton Beach, was in a domestic dispute near the 600 block of Northeast 20th Lane with his father, during which he pulled the machete out, police and fire rescue officials said at the time.
Officers arrived at the nearby Intracoastal Park and found Jules still armed with the machete. Dashboard camera video previously released by the department showed Jules shouting and running toward an officer’s car with the machete in his hand as the officer arrived and parked.
Jules yelled for the officer to “shoot him,” and multiple officers shouted for Jules to get on the ground and drop the machete. One officer could be heard telling Jules to “relax” as he screamed to be sh0t, the video showed.
The two-minute encounter escalated when Jules started advancing toward two of the officers, slashed the machete twice against the concrete and raised it up in the air while walking toward them. Multiple officers then sh0t Jules numerous times, the video showed.
On Wednesday, Boynton Beach Police released to the South Florida Sun Sentinel a memo from State Attorney Alexcia Cox to Chief Joe DeGiulio dated May 13.
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Source: official sources including CBS12 News.
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