What happened: Boynton Beach police have made a second arrest in the August sh00ting death of 19-year-old Nigel Beckford.
Background: Jamill Jean-Baptiste, 17, of Lantana, was taken into custody and charged with first-degree murder with a firearm, police said Thursday. Jean-Baptiste is being held at a detention center in Broward County.
Beckford was sh0t just before 5 p.m. 8 near the 100 block of Northwest 8th Avenue in Boynton Beach.
Authorities said their sh0t detection system alerted officers to multiple sh0ts fired, while dispatchers received several 911 calls reporting a man had been sh0t. Officers working an off-duty detail at Sara Sims Park found Beckford and took him to a hospital, where he later died.
Police previously arrested Sebastian Abdul Miller, 17 , of Boynton Beach, in the case. Miller was charged with first-degree murder with a firearm and discharging a firearm from a vehicle.
They later identified a second vehicle believed to be connected to the sh00ting and executed multiple search warrants with help from the department’s SWAT team.
The available details are limited to the information verified at publication time. Readers should expect updates as the matter develops.
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Source: official sources including CBS12 News.
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