A guy from West Palm Beach is being held in the Palm Beach County jail on charges of first-degree murder in connection with a fatal shooting that happened in Palm Beach Gardens earlier this year after a car crashed.
Akeem Eliah Rivers, who is 26 years old, was arrested in Texas on March 29 by U.S. agents, the Houston Police Department, and the Palm Beach Gardens Police Department. On Sunday, he went to court for the first time. A judge ordered him to be held without bail and set his next court date for May 15.
Keondre DeCharles Antonion Sisnett, 29, of West Palm Beach is accused of being a partner. He was taken on Wednesday by police in Palm Beach Gardens and U.S. marshals in West Palm Beach.
He is charged with being a party to a murder after the fact. He made his first court appearance on Thursday. His next court date is May 12.
On Feb. 9, just after 4:30 p.m., there was a shooting at the corner of North Military Trail and Northlake Boulevard, where a car had just crashed.
The arrest report says that while Palm Beach Gardens police units were on their way to the scene, police communications got several more calls saying that a witness to the crash saw a gun and heard at least three gunshots. Also, the driver of a red Ford van that was involved had been shot.
When the cops arrived, the victim, a 62-year-old man whose name has not been released, was already dead. He was taken to St. Mary’s Medical Center after being shot six times, but he died there from his wounds.
Police said that their investigation showed that a shooting caused the crash, and that two suspects left the scene in a dark car.
Detectives were able to figure out what car and people were involved.
The red van hit the back of a car that was stopped at the crossing because the light was red. It then drove into the intersection, turned right, and stopped on the westernmost sidewalk of North Military Trail, south of Northlake Boulevard.
The Shell gas station on the southwest corner of the intersection gave surveillance video to the police. A few seconds before the van hit the stopped car, a black sedan, which can be seen on film to be a Kia, was speeding east toward the intersection. Without stopping at the red light, the Kia turned from the middle lane of Northlake Boulevard into the flow of traffic going south.
