A 17-year-old is facing a first-degree murder charge in connection to the Aug. 8 fatal shooting of 19-year-old Nigel Beckford, Boynton Beach police said.
Beckford died Aug. 8 after a shooting near Sara Sims Park on Northwest Ninth Avenue. The U.S. Marshals Service took the 17-year-old into custody on Aug. 18.
The Palm Beach Post is withholding the juvenile's name because he has not formally been charged as an adult. Palm Beach County officials are holding him at the Juvenile Assessment Center as the investigation into the shooting continues. Police did not provide details on how the U.S. Marshals found him.
Gunshots that killed 19-year-old fired from vehicle, Boynton police say
Police said in a Facebook post that they received calls about the shooting just before 5 p.m. on Aug. 8. Officers working an off-duty detail
in the park found Beckford suffering from multiple gunshot wounds.
He was conscious and provided officers with some information before being driven to a hospital and taken into surgery. Beckford later became unresponsive and was pronounced dead, the post said.
The preliminary investigation revealed that the shooter fired multiple rounds from a vehicle before fleeing the scene. Using license-plate readers, detectives identified the car and found it near Quantum Lakes Drive with no one inside. A search of the area found no people of interest.
Detectives later identified a second suspect vehicle, and searched it with the help of the SWAT team after obtaining warrants. It is unknown what those searches found.
Arianna Otero covers breaking news for the Palm Beach Post. Contact her via email at AOtero@pbpost.com and follow her on X: @ari_v_otero.
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