2 charged in fatal shooting Faith leaders want state order banning LGBT bias Human chain of 80 saves family from drowning

Two men are facing murder charges in connection with the fatal shooting of a man found dying outside a Lantana food market, the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office said Tuesday.

Mcintosh Pierre-Paul, 25, of Lake Worth, and Jean Mary Marcherno, 20, of Lantana, are being held at the Palm Beach County Jail and are expected to have court appearances Wednesday.

Investigators say stemmed from robbery.

Details about their arrest and alleged links to the shooting death of Justin Scott Vanmeter have not yet been released.

Vanmeter, 28, was found mortally wounded on the ground outside the Hypoluxo FoodMart on the 1300 block of Hypoluxo Road about 10:45 p.m. Sunday.

Vanmeter died shortly after being taken to a hospital, the sheriff’s office said. the an shooting armed

Central Florida’s faith leaders called on Gov. Rick Scott onMonday to honor a pledge his aides reportedly made in the weeks after the Pulse massacre to protect LGBTstate employees from discrimination.

“Gov. Scott came to Orlando two days after the Pulse massacre to offer his support of our community,” said the Rev. Terri Steed Pierce of Orlando’s Joy Metropolitan Community Church, a congregation that welcomes lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender worshippers. “He came to this very place, sat in this very room … and was kind and sympathetic. He agreed to do what he could to help us heal.”

Though Pierce said Scott made no specific promises to her, a month later the governor’s staff met with leaders of Equality Florida, the state’sLGBTcivil-rights organization. Equality Florida representatives asked two of the governor’s top aides specifically for an executive order banning such discrimination toward state employees and by companies that contract with the state.

At that meeting, Equality Florida’s leaders pointed out that Republican Mayor Lenny Curry of Jacksonville — months before the June 2016 massacre at the gay club that left49 people dead — had issued a mayoral directive to protect city employees and contractors from discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity and expression.

Scott’s aides, several witnesses have said, indicated an order was forthcoming — and soon.

“Their response was that they needed time,” said HannahWillard, public policy director for Equality Florida. “They wanted to see a draft ofMayor Curry’s order. They wanted to see drafts of other executive orders that had been issued in other states, and they wanted us to draft a suggested executive order for the governor. They needed two weeks, they said. Two weeks later, they needed two months. … They indicated this was something they wanted to do. It was just a matter of when.”

In Willard’s follow-up conversations with the governor’s staff, Willard said, there continued to be delays because of more immediate concerns — Hurricane Matthew, the Zika virus and the 2017 session of the Florida Legislature.

PANAMACITYBEACH— Strangers on a Florida Panhandle beach formed an 80-person human chain to rescue nine members of a family who had been caught in a riptide and pulled too far fromshore.

Roberta Ursrey and her family were enjoying the day atM.B. Miller County PieronSaturdaywhenshe noticed her sons were missing, the Panama City News Herald reported. She went looking for them and soon heard them screaming from thewater that theywere trapped by the current.

“I am so grateful,” she said. “These people were God’s angels that were in the right place at the right time. I owe my life and my family’s life to them. Without them, wewouldn’t be here.”

Others warned her not to go in the water, but Ursrey, her mother and five other family members swam to the boys’ aid, but then found themselves also trapped in 15 feet ofwater.

Jessica Simmons, who had stopped with her husband at the beach for dinner, had just found a discarded boogie board when she saw people pointing at the water. She thought they were pointing at a shark, but when she realized peoplewere drowning, she jumped on the board and began swimming towardUrsrey’s family.