Boynton Beach cheers on its hometown Heisman winner
Those who know Lamar Jackson were sure he’d win award.
BOYNTON BEACH — Bill Tomé first met Lamar Jackson about a decade ago when Jackson played in the youth football program for Pompano Beach. Jackson and his team played the Boynton Beach Bulldogs, coached by Tomé, and beat them.
Years later, when Jackson came to Boynton High as a sophomore to play football for the Tigers, Tomé didn’t immediately remember him.
“You didn’t play for my Bulldogs so you can’t be that good,” Tomé, a school police officer sta- tioned at Boynton High, remembers saying to Jackson.
The teen fired back: “No. I beat your Bulldogs.” Ah. Tomé put out his hand.
The only sign that two men lost their lives in a suspected double homicide at the Serrano Apartments near Greenacres was a ribbon of police caution tape at the front public entrance, blowing in the wind.
Palm Beach County Sheriff ’s Office spokeswoman Teri Barbera said that the victims’ next of kin had yet to been notified by early afternoon Sunday. She said the motive and suspect were still under investigation.
All that was really known was that “it is not a random act,” Barbera said.
Resi dents of t hi s well - kept apartment complex were at a loss Sunday morning, while management representatives threatened to get law enforcement involved when reporters tried to ask questions.
One resident of the complex said the shooting occurred next to her apartment in Building 6018. She had no idea about any dispute, except that the shooting occurred inside an apartment.
The Palm Beach County Sheriff ’s Office hasn’t immediately released any more information about the shooting that left the two men dead Saturday at the sprawling apartment complex east of the Greenacres city limits.
On Saturday night, deputies responded to a report of shots fired just after 9 p.m. in the 6000 block of Sherwood Glen Way, just east of Jog Road and south of Forest Hill Boulevard.
Upon arrival, two males were found deceased from gunshot wounds.
The homicides are the 76th and 77th in 2016 within Palm Beach Count y, according to a Palm Beach Post database.
Christine Leah Haile lives next to the complex. She was out with her son feeding some feral cats around 9 p.m.
“I heard about t wo to four shots,” she said. “We were only a 100 or so feet away.”
Kelly Francisque has lived at Serrano for four years and wanted information from managers. She wasn’t getting it.
“It happened last night and they haven’t told us anything,” she said. “My kids are always at