One of multiple suspects arrested in shooting at Boynton ‘Peace in the Hood' event
At least 500 people gathered at Sara Sims Park for the unpermitted event, where 'rival gang members' started shooting at each other about 8 p.m., Boynton Beach Police previously said. Three women were struck when bullets flew in the large crowd, which included children, along with multiple occupied and unoccupied cars.
The police department previously said within two days of the shooting they had 'multiple persons of interest,' though no one had been arrested as of Friday. Jamarion Petty went to the police station on Saturday after he saw a be-on-the-lookout alert with his information on it, according to a probable cause affidavit for his arrest.
Surveillance cameras in the park recorded the moment gunfire erupted between members of the '16th Ave Boys' and the 'Cherry Hill Boyz' gangs, the affidavit said. Members of 16th Ave Boys were standing next to a fence on the south side of the park while members of the rival gang were across the street next to the Community Deliverance Church in the 200 block of Northwest Ninth Avenue.
Multiple people from both groups pulled out guns and started shooting as there were 'hundreds of innocent bystanders, including numerous children, walking through the area,' the affidavit said.
The gunmen continued 'blindly' shooting without aim, even as they were running away from one another, and at least five cars were shot, the affidavit said.
Diamond Delk, one of the injured, told police a man standing near her on the south side of the park was the person who started the shootout, aiming toward the church parking lot, according to the affidavit.
Delk was struck in her hip, fracturing her leg, and now has 'severe mobility issues,' her attorney, Richard A. Ryles said at a news conference last week. He filed a notice of claim with the city on Thursday, blaming the city and the police department for not shutting down the unsanctioned event before the shooting unfolded. The police department in response to questions last week said that the shooting didn't happen on city-owned property.
The event's organizer, who lives in Lake Worth Beach, applied for a special-event permit on June 17 to use the park as the venue for the 'Stop Violence Awareness' rally with 50 to 100 people until about 8:30 p.m., according to emails the police department provided to the Sun Sentinel. The permit was denied, but the event went on anyway.
At the police station on Saturday, Petty said he was at the event alone when he heard gunshots, according to the affidavit, so he took out a small gun and ran toward a house but 'was adamant that he did NOT shoot' it. Petty identified himself in a photo from the park's surveillance cameras.
A detective showed Petty video allegedly of him running alongside someone while shooting his gun, with smoke visibly coming out of the end of the barrel, according to the affidavit. While at the police station, Petty was apparently wearing the same Nike sandals he was seen wearing in the surveillance video. They were taken into evidence.
Petty was booked into the Palm Beach County jail on Saturday and faces charges of attempted second-degree murder, aggravated battery with a firearm and discharging a firearm in public, court and jail records show. He has not yet entered any plea. He is held without bond.
The police department as of Monday has not released information about the arrest or its investigation.
'We do still have multiple persons of interest,' spokesperson Chelsea Sanabia said. 'We hope to have more information in the next few days.'
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