PALM BEACH GARDENS, Florida — A violent altercation at a public golf course this week in Palm Seashore Gardens left one man lifeless and one other dealing with a first-degree homicide cost.
Investigators say Junior Boucher, 36, of The Acreage, killed 65-year-old Brian Hiltebeitel, utilizing Hiltebeitel’s personal golf golf equipment to assault him Monday afternoon at Sandhill Crane Golf Membership, a city-owned course alongside Northlake Boulevard west of Florida’s Turnpike. Boucher additionally choked Hiltebeitel.
“We’re still looking through the leads,” he mentioned. “We’re still interviewing people at the scene. We don’t know (the motive) yet.”
Throughout a courtroom listening to Tuesday on the Palm Seashore County Jail, county Decide Ted Booras assigned Boucher a public defender and ordered that he be held with out bail. As a coverage, the county Public Defender’s Workplace doesn’t touch upon open instances.
Police: Man dealing with homicide cost tried to flee after golf-club assault
Pape mentioned Boucher’s household had reported him lacking to the Palm Seashore County Sheriff’s Workplace about an hour earlier than the assault, which occurred shortly earlier than 1:30 p.m. Courtroom information present the assault occurred on the identical day {that a} relative filed an eviction discover in opposition to Boucher.
In response to Boucher’s arrest report, officers responded to a number of 911 calls concerning a person attacking one other with a golf membership. Upon arriving, officers discovered Hiltebeitel’s physique subsequent to a pond on the golf course and made contact with {a partially} clothed Boucher as he tried to flee.
The arrest report didn’t checklist a spot of residence for Hiltebeitel.
Witnesses advised police Boucher started hitting Hiltebeitel with a golf membership close to the primary gap, then retrieved one other membership and chased Hiltebeitel to the pond. He continued to strike Hiltebeitel till each males have been within the water.
Then Boucher jumped on high of Hiltebeitel and appeared to choke him, witnesses advised police. A short while later, Boucher bought out of the water, stripped his garments off and started to stroll away towards a close-by wooded space, in keeping with the arrest report. Officers mentioned they used an “electronic control device” to detain him.
First responders pulled Hiltebeitel to the banks of the pond and tried lifesaving care. Fireplace Rescue medics pronounced him lifeless.
Authorities took Boucher to Palm Seashore Gardens Medical Middle for analysis. He declined to talk to investigators with out an legal professional current.
