No bond for man accused in shooting

A 19-year-old man has been charged in a Sept. 18 shooting of a man in Riviera Beach and might also have shot the victim’s wife, police reports show.

Jimmy Blaise, also of Riviera Beach, was booked Tuesday afternoon at the Palm Beach County Jail, charged with attempted felony murder and armed burglary.

On Wednesday, Palm Beach County Circuit Judge Dina Keever-Agrama ordered Blaise be held without bail and have no contact with the victim or his family.

According to a Riviera Beach police report, Blaise shot Frederick Bullard III, 34, in the back at a rooming house at 860 West 7th St., where Bullard lived. Bullard was taken to St. Mary’s Medical Center in West Palm Beach.

Two hours after Bullard was shot, the report said, his wife, Marqouise Banks, 25, was brought to the same hospital by her father for a gunshot wound to her lower back. She told police Blaise shot her as well, but she is not listed in the report as a victim.

Police spokeswoman Rose Anne Brown said Wednesday, “the investigation is ongoing to how she got shot.”

Another resident of the rooming house told police he saw Bullard and his wife, Banks, talking. The witness said the wife apologized about something that happened the previous day and offered to “pay for everything that she broke.” As Bullard and Banks began arguing, Bullard told his wife to leave.

The witness said Banks ran to the front of the home and called, “Jimmy: Come here. Meet me at the back door.” The witness said he saw a man later identified as Blaise point a gun at Bullard. The witness ran from the home and heard several gunshots and heard Blaise shout, “I will kill you both.” The witness said he then saw Blaise drive off.

Two other persons in the home told police they also saw the shooting, and one said she heard Bullard call out that he’d been shot.

At the hospital, Bullard, suffering from a bullet wound to the right shoulder, said he and his wife had been separated for about a month and the wife had taken up with Blaise. Bullard also told police Blaise had sent him threatening text messages for the past two weeks.

Bullard said that after he argued with his wife and she called for Blaise, Blaise struck Bullard in the head with the gun, then pointed it in Bullard’s face and tried to fire it. Bullard said he turned and ran and Blaise shot him in the back.

When Banks later was brought to the hospital, she told police that she had argued with her husband and that he had threatened her with a hammer, and then put a knife to her neck, according to the report. She said he then called for Blaise to get out of the house.

She said when Blaise pulled his gun, her husband dropped the knife and Blaise shot him. She said she was shot when her husband grabbed her and used her as a shield.

The report said police were unable to find either a knife or a hammer at the home.