RIVIERA BEACH — A woman critically wounded in a shooting last March in Riviera Beach has died and a man arrested in connection to the attack could face more serious charges.
Lauren St. Fort of West Palm Beach died Jan. 9, nearly 10 months to the day she was shot multiple times in what police described as a robbery during an apparent drug deal on the 1400 block of West 36th Street in Riviera Beach. She was three days shy of her 28th birthday, according to an online obituary.
Police said St. Fort sustained a gunshot wound to the base of her neck and another to her right thigh on the afternoon of March 11, 2023. She was taken to St. Mary’s Medical Center in critical condition after police found her in the driver’s seat of a white Honda Accord.
Investigators arrested Christopher Lane of Palm Beach Gardens, 24, in St. Fort’s shooting in May on initial charges of attempted second-degree murder, robbery with a firearm and shooting into an occupied vehicle. They also arrested a 24-year-old Lake Park woman for the same offenses, but her case was dismissed in June after state prosecutors decided not to file formal charges.