WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — West Palm Beach police held a press conference Thursday evening with details on the arrest made in connection with the shooting that occurred in the early hours of Monday morning in a parking lot on Clematis Street.
Montrez Jaekwon Grinnon, 26, of Riviera Beach was the sole shooter who fired at 1:30 a.m. on the victim and two other people who were with the victim, West Palm Beach police spokesman Mike Jachles said.
"That was exceptional police work by the West Palm Beach Police Department detectives that have worked constantly since this shooting happened to develop a probable cause and identify that Grinnon was the shooter in this case," he said.
Jachles said Grinnon was the passenger in a rental blue Audi that was seen fleeing the scene.
He was apprehended Monday morning, just hours after the incident, when detectives were able to locate him hiding under a parked car in a Deerfield Beach apartment complex.
Officers were able to recover two handguns.
"The driver of that vehicle actually got into another car and took off," Jachles said.
Jachles said the 24-year-old shooting victim remains in the hospital in serious condition.
Grinnon faces three counts of first-degree premeditated attempted murder with a firearm and one count each of Florida felon in possession of a firearm, possession of a firearm by a violent career criminal and discharging a firearm in public.
The incident remains under investigation.
