Mother, daughter fatally stabbed

Boyfriend critically injured, officer shot after domestic dispute

COCONUT CREEK – Three of the victims in a Coconut Creek domestic dispute Saturday were stabbed and not shot, with only a police officer responding to the call — and a dog killed in the house — receiving gunshot wounds, police said Sunday afternoon.

A Marjory Stoneman Douglas High graduate and her mother were killed. The young woman’s boyfriend was critically injured, and a Coconut Creek officer was wounded in the attacks in the Coral Pointe subdivision.

The incident was first called a shooting because of the injuries to Officer Andrew Renna, while police released few other details as they pieced together what had happened. They have still not released the names of the victims, which have become public through friends of the deceased and injured.

“We don’t believe any of them were shot. We believe they were all stabbed. The only one that was shot was the police officer,” police spokesman Scotty Leamon said. “We think the dog was shot, but we’re not sure of that yet.”

Hannah Bonta, who played on the Douglas High softball team and was studying to be a nurse, “was a bright light to everyone that talked to her,” her friend Kacie Cahill said. Bonta “wanted to help people,” her friend said.

Bonta graduated from the Parkland high school months before a former student killed 17 students

and staff and injured 17 others. She was a 20-year-old student attending Florida Atlantic University, its student newspaper reported.

Bonta’s mom, Jan Kirkland, “could put a smile on anyone’s face and was the life of the party anywhere she went,” said Cahill. She also said Bonta and her boyfriend, Craig Newman, were “so in love” and perfect together.

Jason Dale Roseman, 44, was arrested and charged with two counts of premeditated murder and two counts of attempted premeditated murder, including one on a law enforcement officer. He was also charged with a probation violation and was being held without bond Sunday in Broward Main Jail.

Cahill said Roseman was Kirkland’s boyfriend. Police said they think Roseman was living at the home where violence erupted about 7 a.m. Saturday, when a next-door resident called 911 to say someone was knocking on her door asking for help.

Renna was the first arriving officer. As he pulled up, he was met with multiple shotgun blasts that came through the passenger’s side door and window of his patrol car and punctured his right lung, police said. Renna, 30, was listed in stable condition at Broward Health North Medical Center.

Two other officers arriving at the scene saw Roseman standing in the intersection of Northwest 42nd Way and 56th Drive holding a shotgun. He dropped his gun and surrendered, police said.

Kirkland’s body was found inside the house in the 4200 block of Northwest 57th Drive, along with a dead pit bull. Bonta’s body was found on a neighbor’s driveway, and Newman was on a driveway of a different home. He was taken to Broward Health North and is in critical condition, police said.

A police booking report shows that Roseman, who is originally from Hickory, North Carolina, was arrested in a domestic violence case at an address not far from Saturday’s shooting scene in Coconut Creek on Aug. 24, 2017.

Prosecutors charged Roseman with aggravated assault with intent to commit a felony, domestic battery by strangulation and “touch or strike/battery/ domestic violence.”

The state dropped the first charge, records show. The court withheld adjudication after he pleaded no contest to the other charges and was placed on probation through next year. As part of the probation, he was assigned to spend time in a sober house and spend 26 weeks in an intervention program for batterers.

A team from the Broward Sheriff ’s Office bomb squad checked the inside of the home where the shooting happened and found several rifles and something that looked like an IED homemade explosive device, but it was later determined to be fake.

An earlier version of this article incorrectly reported that some of the victims other than the officer were shot.