Subject: Shootings

• S.I.: Serious Idiots

  March 9, 2007

• Sun-Sentinel Leaves Readers In The Dark

  January 8, 2007

• No More Moore

  December 11, 2006

• BSO Smokes Carlton

  December 5, 2006

• Remembering David Royce Truman

  November 30, 2006

• Another FLPD Shooting

  November 29, 2006

• Morning Rundown

  August 15, 2006

• Is This The Next Sheriff of Broward County?

  August 6, 2007

• Another Deputy Down

  August 10, 2007

• Boy: Have Gun, Will Kill

  September 12, 2007

• Four Years Later, DJ's Death Still Unsolved

  January 4, 2008

• Rick Ross Speaks About the Shooting at his Annual Be Out Day

  August 7, 2008

• Breaking News: Opa Locka Rapper Toro Gunned Down

  October 18, 2008

• Studio A Shooter Charged With First-Degree Murder

  (Photo by Ivon David Rojas)The Herald reported yesterday a small item following up on this past April's shooting at the now-defunct Studio A. A 22-year-old man has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of his 24-year-old alleged victim. The shooting took place on Sunday, April 14, during the club's well-attended Sunday night hip-hop party. While that weekly event featured a drastically different audience and musical vibe than the rest of the club's programming, it had reportedly, in

  December 17, 2008

• The Gallows and the Deep

  December 4, 1997

• Conspiracy, She Wrote

  January 15, 1998

• Reel Stories

  March 25, 1999

• Best Inner-city Park

  May 13, 2004

• Justice Severed

  Maharaj went from the high life to a life sentence — 20 years so far for a crime he may not have committed

  September 27, 2007

• Murder Rate Jinks Strikes Again

  Alan DixonYou can't help but cringe when you see a headline like the one that appeared in the Sun-Sentinel last week -- "Broward County Homicide Rate Is Slowing." That was last Monday, when through the year's first quarter the county had seen only 17 murders, compared to an average of 21 over the same period in previous years. Not a big difference, but I suppose that it's newsworthy only because one would expect recent economic pressures to create a boost in violent crime.Exactly one week later,

  April 6, 2009

• Toy Soldiers

  Be all that you can be — in war games with almost-real assault weapons

  September 11, 2008

• Rick Ross' Credibility Takes a Bullet

  August 14, 2008

• Flyleaf

  August 9, 2007

• Wingin' It

  Fledgling Guardian Angels get the call from gang-riddled Lake Worth

  August 2, 2007

• Gang Tackled

  Football star Jarvis Hicks couldn't resist the undertow of gang violence

  June 21, 2007

• Dead End

  February 15, 2007

• Blood on the Driveway

  This police shooting has left a stain on Fort Lauderdale

  December 14, 2006

• The Wrong Keith

  The case against accused cop-killer Keith King was so weak, he's already out of prison. So why did BSO ignore evidence pointing to Keith Maddox?

  April 25, 2002

• The Fast Life and Near Death of Nica

  Revered by followers, feared by rivals, and targeted by police, the gang leader known as Nica is alive today because of a brush with death

  April 20, 2000

• Inside the Soap Box

  Michael Moore gets out of his La-Z-Boy to find The Awful Truth

  May 25, 2000

• Biting the Hand That Needs

  From the beach to city hall, Fort Lauderdale puts women and minorities in their place, says an affirmative action specialist who was fired after speaking up

  May 7, 1998

• Gun Range: Probably the Worst Place to Execute an Arrest Warrant

  That's video from the scene of the worst police shooting in Florida this year. Now the governor-appointed Okaloosa County sheriff, Edward Spooner, is trying to defend his department's decision to arrest a wife-beating weapons expert at a gun range. In an incident that appeared entirely avoidable, two deputies were killed before the suspect was shot to death. Let's take a look at an article just posted in the Northwest Florida Daily News:Joshua Cartwright had had a few hours to cool off and wasn'

  April 28, 2009

• Hong Kong City BBQ

  May 14, 2009

• Truth in User Comments? In Bamboozles' Case, Yes.

  Pop a cap in that yolk.​You  have to take message board user comments with a grain of salt - who knows what motivates people to say the things they do on the Internet. Often, absurd comments are a result of a mixture of anonymity and audience, a variation on the time-tested Greater Internet Dickwad Theory. Other times, comments are born of fact. If only there was a way to actively separate the two, maybe there would be a couple fewer people with bullet holes in them this morning. Around 2

  August 17, 2009

• Two Names Released in Miramar Murder Case

  Faith Bisasor, 49, and her 15-year-old son Davion Bishop are two of the three people who were found dead yesterday at 9581 Encino Street in Miramar, both apparently victims of gunshot wounds.The Miramar Police Department released their names a few minutes ago. The name of the third victim has still not been released, pending the notification of next of kin.A fourth victim, a woman and the lone survivor, remains at Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood and is said to be undergoing surgery. The

  August 18, 2009

• Morning Juice: On Back to School Day, a Lesson From the Supercool Beas

  ​It's Monday, and this week you can concentrate on your own "tropical depression."Especially if you're a South Florida student, where according to the Miami Herald's Patricia Mazzei, you can look forward to a "no frills" school year, due to budget cuts at school districts. Not in Broward, though, where according to Pulp, Heron Heights Elementary never needed to be built, meaning that it's a $30 million frill. A man was shot dead outside El Toro Loco in West Palm early this morning. So early th

  August 24, 2009

• Abducted Woman Killed in Hollywood

  Photo: Fort Lauderdale PDDominique Duval​Dominique Duval, the 23-year-old woman from Lauderhill who was allegedly abducted in Fort Lauderdale yesterday evening, was found shot late last night. She later died of a gunshot wound to the neck. From the release by Hollywood PD: On Wednesday, August 26, 2009, at approximately 11:20 p.m., detectives from Hollywood's Street Crimes Unit observed an older model black four door Mercedes traveling at a high rate of speed southbound on South 28th Avenue in

  August 27, 2009

• Suspect in Triple Murder Arrested

  Photo: Palm Beach Sheriff's OfficeBruce Strachan​The Palm Beach Sheriff's Office is reporting the arrest of Bruce Strachan, the ex-con wanted in connection with a triple murder this past weekend in Lake Worth. He was arrested less than an hour ago in Delray Beach without incident.Strachan, 25, will be charged with first degree murder in the early Saturday morning shooting deaths of his estranged wife, Yamika Murphy, along with two friends, Ronald Anthony Wright and Debbie Sears.PBSO will updat

  August 31, 2009

• Fatal Stabbing at Pompano Gas Station

  Photo: Broward Sheriff's OfficeEdris Berry​An argument at a Shell gas station in Pompano Beach led to the early-morning stabbing death of a 33-year-old man, Edris Berry, and the Broward Sheriff's Office is looking for two men in their 20s who were with Berry when the stabbing to took place. From the release:Both have short-cropped Afros, are of slim build and wore dark shirts and shorts. In October 2007, the same Shell gas station was the site of a double homicide during which two clerks were

  September 2, 2009

• Latest on the Shooting in Hollywood

  Hollywood Police just updated the media about its findings in shooting incident that occurred in the late afternoon Sunday in Boulevard Heights. It's a murder-suicide. The shooter's name is Zacaria Fernandez, who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound after he shot Yvonne Magdalena Rios, the sister of his estranged wife, several times. Both were found in the driveway of their North 66th Terrace home. Rios' sister. The release adds a few more details to how the incident occurred:The ensuing inves

  October 5, 2009

• SWAT Team Dispatched in Boynton Beach

  From WPBF: Several gun shots were heard before noon at a residence in Boynton Beach and SWAT team went into the home but found no one there. Here's a cryptic report:WPBF 25 News' Jim Abath said in a live report at noon that a woman said she heard what she thought were gunshots and then heard a man yelling out, "I told you."

  October 12, 2009

• Police Release More Details in Cop Shooting

  Georges​The man who shot and wounded a Fort Lauderdale police officer this weekend before being killed has been identified as Bastiany Georges, a 29-year-old who had an extensive criminal history. The incident occurred following police attempts to make a traffic stop on Andrews Avenue. The Fort Lauderdale Police news release:The driver refused to stop and finally came to a rest at the 1100 block of Northwest 4th Avenue. It is at that point that a confrontation ensued between the culprit and o

  October 19, 2009

• Smooth Criminal No More; "Dapper Dan" Busted

  Photo: Broward Sheriff's OfficeJenkins​Two weeks after a suit-wearing man pulled a gun out of briefcase and shot Tobias Barfield of Dania Beach, "Dapper Dan" is in police custody. The Broward Sheriff's Office is reporting that the suspect, John Roger Jenkins, turned himself in this morning. Here's the release.Investigators have not yet identified a motive in the shooting, and that, of course, is the $64,000 question. We've been fascinated by this strange case since it first broke two weeks ago

  October 19, 2009

• Morning Juice: Nobody Wants Oil or Feces in Their Backyard

  ​Let's scan the headlines for this Thursday morning:If you challenged Miramar resident Joe Otano to name one exceptional quality of living next door to  Ellie Boudreau, here's what he'd say: "What really makes it stand out is the throwing of feces over into my property -- human feces." [WPLG]The attorney for William Gorzynski, the 15-year-old from Coral Springs, charged with stabbong his 14-year-old brother to death, says it was self-defense. [Miami Herald]In Tallahassee, proponents of dr

  October 29, 2009

• Blocking Foul: In Boynton Beach Murder Case, No One Wants to Be a Snitch

  So 30-year-old Junior Cesar had several friends with whom he played basketball but none of them recognized the person who walked up to Cesar, then shot him dead? Really? Here's the latest from the Boynton Beach Police Department: The victim has been identified as Junior Cesar, 30, of Boynton Beach. Witnesses told detectives that Cesar was with 6-7 males playing basketball around 7:30 p.m. when numerous shots were fired. Cesar was shot multiple times and died on the basketball court.Police know t

  October 29, 2009

• Morning Juice: Reticent Witnesses in Boynton; Biden Visits Boca

  ​An extra-spooky, Halloween Eve edition of the MJ:Junior Cesar, the 30-year-old man who was shot dead Wednesday night at a basketball court in Boynton Beach's Pence Park is the older brother of Jesse Cesar, who was 22 when he was murdered just before he could testify against a gang member accused in a Christmas Eve murder at the Boynton Beach Mall. Police say there's no evidence the two Cesar murders are related, but I'll venture a guess that this is the reason that the six basketball players

  October 30, 2009

• Suspect Nabbed in Boynton Basketball Killing

  Kudos to the witnesses who stepped forward in the murder case of Junior Cesar. The Boynton Beach Police Department acted on witness tips to arrest Suprinet Augustin, 22. He allegedly confronted Cesar during a basketball game at Pence Park, pistol-whipped him, then shot Cesar three times. Another 22-year-old, Jakenson St. Hilaire, allegedly drove Augustin from the scene in a 1996 Ford Mustang. He's been charged with accessory to murder.According to the arrest affidavit, St. Hilaire gave a stateme

  October 30, 2009

• Man Shot by Police in Downtown Fort Lauderdale

  Details remain vague, but Fort Lauderdale Police are investigated a shooting that occurred near the Broward County bus terminal downtown involving an off-duty officer. From the release:Preliminary investigation has revealed that a Police Sergeant was working an off-duty detail at the Broward County Main Bus Terminal. The Sergeant was advised that there was an armed male at 300 Northwest 1 Avenue. The Sergeant advised via radio that he needed an emergency back-up to his location. A few moments

  November 4, 2009

• Details Released in Shooting by Lauderdale Cop

  The Fort Lauderdale Police Department has provided new information on the shooting by its officer yesterday afternoon near the bus station downtown. The man shot has been identified as 20-year-old Jonas Joseph. From the release: Sergeant Dean Schoen, a 12-year-veteren, received information from a citizen that the suspect, Jonas Joseph was armed with a knife. Sergeant Schoen located and approached the suspect at which time Joseph brandished a knife. According to multiple witness accounts, Serge

  November 5, 2009

• Morning Juice: Adult Charges for Suspects in Brewer Case; Rothstein With a Bad Case of the Mondays

  ​Here's a look at what's happening in South Florida this Tuesday morning:Derek Hayward of WSVN-7 delivered a methodical, metaphor-rich report of Monday at the Scott Rothstein estate, where boats and luxury cars were seized by federal agents. "I'm alone now," intoned Rothstein. "I have very few friends." [WSVN]Three of the five boys accused of being involved in the burning of 15-year-old Michael Brewer are being charged as adults. [Miami Herald]Swastikas were found on the walls of a Jewish comm

  November 10, 2009