A late-night argument between two women escalated into gunfire inside a Boynton Beach apartment, leaving one woman shot and triggering a multi-agency search for a missing child, according to police.
Justice Taneisha Guyton, 26, surrendered to the Boynton Beach Police Department on Thursday, hours after investigators say she shot 26-year-old La’Shay Lee during a physical altercation.
Guyton is charged with aggravated battery with a firearm and shooting into an occupied dwelling. She is being held at the Palm Beach County Jail on a $100,000 bond and has been ordered to have no contact with the victim. Court records show her contact with her child is limited to phone calls, pending approval from the Florida Department of Children and Families.
What police say happened
Officers were dispatched just before 2:49 a.m. Thursday to an apartment on NE 9th Avenue after reports that a woman had been shot.
Police say Lee was found inside the apartment with a gunshot wound and immediately identified the shooter as “Justice Johnson,” later confirmed to be Guyton. Lee was transported to Delray Medical Center for treatment…