2 West Palm officers involved in shooting
Suspect wounded after confrontation in Palmetto Park.
WESTPALM BEACH — A 20-year-old man is facing aggravated assault charges and two police officers are on leave following a confrontation early Monday in which one of the officers shot the man in the parking lot of a city park.
Leonardo Anthony Matos faces two counts each of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon on a law-enforcement officer and felony criminal mischief. He is accused of ramming his Hyundai SUV into two city patrol cars, then driving toward an officer.
Matos was shot multiple times during the incident, which took place shortly after midnight at Palmetto Park in the city’s south end. It’s unclear when he will be released from St. Mary’s Medical Center, but he is expected to survive.
An 18-year-old woman was a passenger in the SUV but had not been charged with any crime as of late Monday.
The officers involved are Tom Janis and Kimberly Garcia, city police said late Monday. They will remain on administrative leave until the case is reviewed. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement will conduct the investigation, Chief Sarah Mooney said.
Janis has been employed by the department since December 2004 and Garcia since November 2015. Both work patrol, according to city police. Neither was injured during the shooting.
Monday’s shooting is the second involving a law-enforcement officer in Palm Beach Count y in four days. A man suspected in a shootout with Palm Beach County sheriff ’s deputies early Friday was fatally shot during a second standoff in Jupiter that night. No additional details on Friday’s shooting were available Monday.
Officers responded early Monday to a 911 call about an unwanted guest on Franklin Road, a quiet neighborhood of single-family homes about a block from the park, not far from Palmetto Elementary School. The guest had left when police arrived, but officers spotted a suspicious car at the park, Mooney told reporters at an early morning news con- WEST PALM BEACH — Revolutions Bowling Bar & Grille at CityPlace recently brought aboard a new food operator, which is a good thing for the bowling alley’s financial future: Late last year, Revolutions quietly fended off not one but two eviction lawsuits filed against it by CityPlace, according to court records.
Revolutions isn’t alone. Two restaurants, Moe’s Southwest Grill and Miami Grill, also were sued for eviction by CityPlace, in West Palm Beach.
In November, CityPlace Retail sued Revolutions, alleging it was behind on the rent by $141,255 as of Oct. 12, 2016. The Palm Beach County Court lawsuit was settled within days. But the next month, CityPlace sued Revolutions again, this time for $78,632.
That figure represents one month’s base rent of $56,250, plus taxes, plus an extraordinary $10,441 in back payments for chilled water for the HVAC system. Monthly chilled water costs are $8,739, according to documents in the case. This lawsuit was settled, too. Bruce Frank, Revolutions chief executive, said the bowling lane business has been strong. But it’s the food that has struggled to make its mark in a center crowded with competing restaurants.
Late last year, Frank teamed up with Burger & Beer Joint of Boca Raton to offer burgers and other fare to bowlers and visitors. B&B also opened an outdoor Flair Street bar at Revolutions, featuring bartenders tossing drinks in the air along the lines of the Tom Cruise film, “Cocktail.”
(The B&B venture has not been without controversy: A Burger & Beer Joint franchisee recently filed a demand for arbitration against the parent company, alleging its franchise was terminated as part of a scheme by B&B to team up