Cops ID 2 of 3 killed after Belvedere crash, shooting
Chauncey Christian, Jerry Dunois named as two who died Monday.
WEST PALM BEACH — The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office has identified two of the three people who died Monday after a crash and a shooting on Belvedere Road in suburban West Palm Beach.
Chauncey Christian, 21, and Jerry Dunois, 20, were killed in the noontime incident that closed traffic on both sides of Florida’s Turnpike for more than five hours.
The third person who died was a juvenile whom the sheriff did not identify Tuesday.
Derek Jupiter, 20, was in a hospital in stable condition as of midday Tuesday, PBSO said.
County records show Christian, Dunois and Jupiter all recently lived in suburban West Palm Beach, although it wasn’t clear Tuesday whether any of them lived in Madison Chase, the apartment community along Belvedere Road west of the turnpike where the sheriff ’s office believes the confrontation that led to the deaths began.
Efforts to reach family members of the three men were not successful.
The sheriff’s office has not released any other information about the crash and shootings, including how many gunmen were involved, whether the three dead
people were shot or killed in the wreck and what motivated the incident.
Prior to the shootings, there had been 11 confirmed homicides in Palm Beach County since the start of 2018, none of them in the area near the site of Monday’s crash and shooting, according to a Palm Beach Post online database.
The shootings appeared to have resulted in the crash that closed Belvedere Road from Jog Road east of Florida’s Turnpike to Sansbury’s Way on the west side.
PBSO said Monday people in one car starting shooting at people in another car at Madison Chase.
One person at the scene Monday said she head multiple gunshots — “like a machine gun going off ” — then a “big ‘boom,’ like an explosion” outside her home near the crash site.
Anyone with information about Monday’s incidents is asked to call Crime Stoppers of Palm beach County at 800-458-TIPS (8477). Callers to Crime Stoppers can be anonymous.