A woman is dead after a shooting in Arden on Friday, Sept. 4, and the man suspected in her death barricaded himself in a downtown West Palm Beach hotel, the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office said.
Investigators did not identify the woman, whose body deputies found shortly after 3 p.m. in a home on the 1400 block of Tangle Orchid Trace in Arden, off Southern Boulevard about 10 miles west of State Road 7. Details about the shooting were not immediately available.
Investigators learned the man suspected of shooting her had fled to West Palm Beach and discovered he had barricaded himself inside a room at The Ben Hotel on Narcissus Avenue.
West Palm Beach police's SWAT team went to the hotel in an effort to persuade the person to surrender. It not
immediately clear whether the man was in custody.
The investigation remains open, the Sheriff's Office said.
This is a developing story. Check back to www.PalmBeachPost.com for updates.
Tom Elia is an editor at The Palm Beach Post. You can reach him at telia@pbpost.com. Support local journalism: Subscribe today.
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