WEST PALM BEACH — More than five years after a shooting that killed two teens at a West Palm Beach-area park , authorities have arrested a 27-year-old man in connection to the crime.
Palm Beach County sheriff’s deputies booked Jabari Scott into the jail on Monday, Oct. 7, to face charges in the Jan. 13, 2019, killings of 17-year-old Moltere Charles Jr. and 16-year-old Frederick Rosemond at Lake Belvedere Estates Park.
A grand jury in June formally indicted Scott on two counts of first-degree murder with a firearm in the Lake Belvedere Estates Park shootings. He is also facing five additional counts of attempted second-degree murder.
On the order of Circuit Judge Scott Suskauer, who will preside over Scott’s trial, state officials transferred Scott from the custody of the Florida Department of Corrections, where he is serving a 10-year prison sentence at Lancaster Correctional Institution in a separate attempted murder case.
During a hearing on Tuesday, Oct. 8, Circuit Judge Donald Hafele assigned Scott a public defender and ordered that he be held without bail. As a policy, the county Public Defender’s Office does not comment on open cases.