These are the homicides committed during 1990, according to the Palm Beach County medical examiner.
— JAN. 21: Roderic Thornton, 19, of Belle Glade. He was shot in the chest during a fight.
— JAN. 26: Sipri Pierre, 28. He was visiting friends in West Palm Beach, left to use a nearby pay phone and was shot in the chest and abdomen. The motive may have been robbery.
— FEB. 2: Terance Kuehne, 30. Two days after being released from the Palm Beach County Jail, he was shot in the chest and shoulder. Deputies arrested Ricky Hodges, 32. The dispute started when Hodges slapped Kuehne’s girlfriend, reports say.
— FEB. 5: Vernon Howe, 28. Police said a man looking for his wife smashed the kitchen window of a home in the 1100 block of Avenue H in Riviera Beach and fired inside. Howe was found alone in his living room, shot in the chest and abdomen. Richard Mosley, 28, of Riviera Beach was charged with first- degree murder.
— FEB. 5: Gladys Novoa, 61. Her husband, Ernie Novoa, shot her in the neck and chest and then killed himself in western Palm Beach County.
— FEB. 6: Peter Helmschrott Sr., 39, of Lake Worth. Helmschrott, owner of Studebaker’s restaurant, was shot in the chest with his own gun after breaking into his girlfriend’s Boynton Beach home, raping her and slicing her throat, police said. A grand jury cleared the woman.
— FEB. 7: Gladys Till, 65, of West Palm Beach. She died of carbon monoxide poisoning at home. The medical examiner said it appeared someone helped in her death, but no one has been prosecuted.
— FEB. 13: Huberta Matthews, 33, of Riviera Beach. For unknown reasons, she drew a handgun and began firing at Capt. John Fillyaw, manager of John D. MacArthur Beach State Park in North Palm Beach. Fillyaw, who fired back and killed her, was cleared by a grand jury.
— FEB. 14: Cynthia Whitaker-Cayson, 21. Her estranged husband came to her workplace in Belle Glade and shot her numerous times. Mark Anthony Cayson was convicted of first-degree murder.
— FEB. 14: James Morton, 33, of Boynton Beach. Morton, a Boynton Beach auto parts store employee, was stabbed by a co-worker after the two argued about a valve stem for a customer’s tire. Johnny Claude Colson, 25, of Boynton Beach, was convicted of manslaughter.
— FEB. 19: Mary Landis, 87. Her husband, Jerry Landis, shot her and then killed himself in their mobile home west of Lantana. Mary Landis had been ill.
— FEB. 24: Pearl Willie Paulk, 26, of Riviera Beach. Her body was found with stab wounds to the chest in Phil Foster Park in Riviera Beach. Police arrested James Cherry Jr., 31, of Riviera Beach in a Washington, D.C., poolroom.
— FEB. 25: Gregory King, 30, of South Bay. King, a firefighter, was shot in the chest by his wife during a fight at their home. A grand jury cleared the woman.
— MARCH 2: Audrey Fenner, 74, of Delray Beach. Her stepgrandson, Gary Miller, 25, shot her several times because she would not let him borrow a car to go to work. Miller was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole for 25 years.
— MARCH 2: Theresa Fenner, 55. Her nephew, Gary Miller, 25, shot her numerous times after she unexpectedly came home and found Audrey Fenner’s body.
— MARCH 7: Annie Lewis, 39. She died of blunt trauma to her head.
— MARCH 13: Thomas Wood, 50, of Riviera Beach. He was found on his apartment floor with stab wounds.
— MARCH 17: Michael Oliver, 36. Oliver, a painter, was beaten to death by a bat or a board. Sheriff’s deputies charged Mark Rossi.
— MARCH 17: Rachel Hurley, 14, of Jupiter. The Jupiter Middle School student was raped and smothered in Carlin Park. The case remains open.
— MARCH 27: Willie Lee Alexander, 36, of Pahokee. Alexander, a burglary suspect, was fatally shot in the back by a Pahokee police officer. A grand jury found the shooting justifiable.
— MARCH 28: Sergine Jeannite, 18, of West Palm Beach. Jeannite, three months pregnant, was shot in the head with a .38-caliber gun. A grand jury found the shooting by a neighbor to be an accident.
— APRIL 12: William Siple, 47. He was beaten with a metal sign post and died of blunt trauma to his head. Transient Carlton Winebrenner, 50, was charged with second-degree murder in the death of his friend.
— APRIL 12: Reginald Traylor, 18. He was shot during a gun battle in the 100 block of Northwest 13th Avenue in Boynton Beach. Three other people were wounded, two of whom were nearby residents who just happened to be in the wrong place. Corey Adams of Boynton Beach was charged with manslaughter.
— APRIL 13: Bruce Hunt, 43, of Line Drive, west of West Palm Beach. A fisherman found his body, bound and weighed down with rocks, in a Wellington pond. Police charged Paul Harvey and Joe Lee in his death.
— APRIL 16: Milton Johnson, 24. He was shot in the head with a .38-caliber weapon on Division Avenue in West Palm Beach. Police arrested Daniel C. Jones, 18.
— APRIL 28: Leon Hart II, also known as Thomas Edmond, 43. He was struck in the head with an ax and a hammer, possibly during a robbery, on Merry Place in West Palm Beach. Police arrested Tommy English.
— MAY 2: Richard B. Pomianowski, 45, of Palm Springs. He picked up a man at a bar and was strangled that night. Sheriff’s deputies charged Timothy Trumbore with first-degree murder.
— MAY 21: Charles Cooper Jr., 36. He was in the Blue Heron Bar in Riviera Beach on May 19 when he bumped into a man’s girlfriend. Alfred Coleman, 25, allegedly beat Cooper with a 2- by 4-foot piece of wood. Cooper died two days later. Police charged Coleman with second-degree murder.
— MAY 24: Santos Gabriel, 26, of West Palm Beach. Gabriel, a migrant farm worker from Guatemala, was walking with two friends in the 700 block of 41st Street in West Palm Beach when three young robbers rode up on bicycles and demanded money. Gabriel was shot in the chest. His friends fled.
— MAY 25: Lynea Cruz, 14, of Palm Beach Gardens. Cruz, a student, was shot in the left cheek with a .38-caliber revolver at a schoolmate’s home in Jupiter. Her death originally was ruled a suicide, but police later arrested Thomas Wallace, 18.
— MAY 27: John Jackson, 43. Jackson, who was homeless, was stabbed repeatedly by a transient friend next to a gas station in Jupiter. Police arrested Jeffrey Scott Mikel.
— MAY 28: Marlene Warren, 40, of Aero Club. She answered the door to her home and was shot in the head by a person dressed in a clown costume. The case remains open.
— MAY 29: Danny Max, 37, of the 10400 block of Heritage Farms Road. He died of several gunshot wounds to the chest. His girlfriend, Diane Brannon, also was killed at his trailer west of Lantana. Police think his girlfriend’s former husband, Roy Brannon, 38, killed the couple and then turned the gun on himself.
— MAY 29: Diane Brannon, 33, of West Palm Beach. Brannon, a nurse’s aide, was shot at least four times with a .38-caliber revolver at Danny Max’s trailer.
— MAY 31: Gary Largie, 24, of Fort Lauderdale. He was shot in the chest with a .25-caliber gun during a robbery on Grant Street in West Palm Beach.
— JUNE 4: Torrey Butler, 18, of West Palm Beach. He was riding a bicycle on Douglas Avenue in West Palm Beach when he was ambushed. He died of several 9mm bullet wounds in his upper torso.
— JUNE 7: Charles Haynes, 48, of Pelham, Tenn. Haynes, a truck driver, was walking to the soda machine at a South Bay motel when he was robbed and shot. Sheriff’s deputies charged Barnes B. Lampkin, 22, of South Bay, and Anthony Chastine, 22, of Belle Glade, with first-degree murder.
— JUNE 10: James Green, 41, of Belle Glade. He died of a shotgun wound to the thorax.
— JUNE 11: William Sizemore, 20, of the 7800 block of Military Trail. Sheriff’s deputies tried to arrest Sizemore on a warrant from Maryland for violating probation on a burglary charge. He grabbed a gun from a deputy and another deputy shot him in the chest. A grand jury found the death justifiable.
— JUNE 13: Samuel Francis Jr., 28, of West Palm Beach. He was fatally shot in the neck with a 44-gauge shotgun for $1 during a robbery attempt in the 1000 block of 17th Street.
— JUNE 13: Stephen Hodge, 22, of West Palm Beach. He was shot in the head when ambushed in the 400 block of 21st Street.
— JUNE 16: Bernard DeConzo, 30, of Riviera Beach. Police said DeConzo was arguing with some people and stabbed two of them in Riviera Beach. A witness put DeConzo in a choke hold to restrain him. DeConzo died of trauma to his neck.
— JUNE 24: Henry Folk, 63, of Palm Springs. Folk was working as a Rite Aid Pharmacy security guard in Boca Raton, when a man vaulted the pharmacy counter to try to steal drugs. Folk sprayed the man with Mace, and the man shot Folk in the head. Stephen Thomas Langon is in the Palm Beach County Jail awaiting trial.
— JUNE 29: Leo Beauregard, 67, of North Palm Beach. Beauregard, who was retired, was found in his condo stabbed in the neck. His wallet, bracelet and ring had been stolen.
— JULY 4: Earl Timmerman, 35. He was shot once in the chest as he allegedly tried to steal a videocassette recorder from his stepfather’s trailer in the Mar-Mak Mobile Home Park near Lake Worth.
— JULY 8: James Pierce, 39, of Wellington Street. He was shot twice in the chest by his wife, whom he had allegedly beaten. A grand jury cleared his wife.
— JULY 21: Cory Brown, 21. Brown was shot with a high-powered rifle and died at the wheel of his car. Sheriff’s deputies said the shooting stemmed from a feud over a 16-year-old girl. They charged Monte Shellman, 20, with first-degree murder.
— JULY 22: Ricky Jones, 27. He was shot several times as he was leaving a party on West Fifth Street in Riviera Beach.
— JULY 22: Richard Robare, 35, of Lake Worth. Robare, a drywall hanger, was stabbed in the abdomen with a kitchen knife. Lake Worth police charged Susan Kent, 30, Robare’s wife.
— JULY 24: Jose Custodio-Vazques, 19. Custodio-Vazques, a lawn maintenance worker, allegedly snatched a purse from two women at the Winn-Dixie at Boynton Beach Boulevard and Military Trail. The women’s friends apparently found Vazques, chased him and allegedly hit and kicked him to death. He died on a canal bank. Larry Nettles, 21, of West Palm Beach, and Matt Drenner, 19, of Washington, D.C., were indicted on charges of manslaughter on Oct. 4.
— JULY 26: James Roundtree, 22. On July 24, Roundtree, a convicted felon, was riding in a car with three men. They stopped at Palm Beach Lakes Boulevard and Tamarind Avenue in West Palm Beach. At least two men stepped off the curb and opened fire. Roundtree was hit once in the head with a 9mm bullet and died two days later.
— JULY 27: Aletha Sanders’ fetus. Sanders, 17, was about eight months pregnant when her boyfriend, Kenny F. Hall, allegedly punched her at 54th Street and Broadway in West Palm Beach. Sanders fell down. The child was stillborn due to maternal trauma. Hall was charged with killing an unborn child by injury to the mother.
— JULY 28: Graciano Hernandez-Rivera, 24. Sheriff’s deputies said Rivera died during a drug-related shooting in front of his home on Boynton Beach Boulevard near Hagen Ranch Road. His brother, Eddie Rivera, was wounded by the gunfire. Deputies charged Darren A. Morrow, 24.
— AUG. 4: Gerard Fleurimond, 38, of Delray Beach. He was shot in the chest and head during an attempted robbery while sitting outside his home on Northwest Sixth Avenue. Delray Beach police arrested Byron Young, 24.
— AUG. 9: Joseph Greico, 38, of Boynton Beach. His death was initially ruled a suicide, but police later learned that Greico’s wife, Mary, 48, and daughter, Ann, 15, and his daughter’s boyfriend, Melvin Steele, allegedly conspired to kill him because they were sick of his couch-potato attitude. Mary Greico allegedly shot her husband of 27 years as he slept. All three have been charged with first-degree murder.
— AUG. 12: Billy Thompson, 13, of Loxahatchee. A 14-year-old boy took his father’s loaded .12-gauge shotgun from the wall and it discharged, hitting Billy in the face. The boy was charged in Billy’s death.
— AUG. 12: An Unidentified Woman, 25 to 35. Her partially clothed body was found in a wooded area of J.W. Corbett Wildlife Managment Area. She died of blows to her body.
— AUG. 12: Juan Martinez, 40, of Westgate Avenue. A man standing in a Winn- Dixie overheard two men talking who said they had fought with Martinez the night before. The man went to the location they mentioned, a wooded area off Westgate Avenue just east of Military Trail, and found Martinez’s body with several incised wounds.
— AUG. 16: Glenton Hicks, 19, of Riviera Beach. He was arguing with some men when two of them opened fire. He ran into Rosa’s Restaurant & Take Out, 601 W. Eighth St. in Riviera Beach. Two patrons were slightly injured when hit by stray bullets.
— AUG. 21: James Dowling, 18, of Riviera Beach. His bullet-riddled body was found along the Bee Line Highway in Palm Beach Gardens. He had been shot three other times before that night.
— AUG. 23: Shunta Denise Caraway, 2, of Riviera Beach. She was beaten to death with a broom, cord and purse strap. Riviera Beach police charged her mother, Tiffany L. Caraway, 19, and her boyfriend, John F. Bynes, 22, with first-degree murder.
— AUG. 27: Michelle Monroe, 16, of Roosevelt Street near Belle Glade. Monroe, an innocent bystander, was struck in the abdomen by a stray bullet during the exchange of gunfire between two groups of young men at Okeechobee Center. Police charged Carl Aungry with second-degree murder.
— SEPT. 1: David Williams Jr., 21, of Belle Glade. He was shot several times with a small-caliber handgun at Southwest Fifth Street and Avenue B Place. Belle Glade police charged Herman Thomas, 19.
— SEPT. 2: Robert Brown, 23. He was kidnapped and taken to an apartment at Haverhill Gardens near West Palm Beach, where he was shot. A grand jury indicted Roger L. Jackson and Anton McKinney, both 22 and of Riviera Beach, with first-degree murder.
— SEPT. 7: Arsene Henry, 22, of West Palm Beach. While in his car, he was shot in the face with a shotgun during a robbery on 22nd Street. West Palm Beach police charged Anthony Lavan Washington, 18, of Riviera Beach with first-degree murder and armed robbery.
— SEPT. 9: Juanita Smith, 52, of Boynton Beach. Smith, owner of a retirement home, was shot in the forehead with a .22-caliber pistol on Sept. 6. Police arrested her husband, Michael Smith, 41.
— SEPT. 11: Lucie Jane Pate, 33, of West Palm Beach. She was found in a canal at the end of Hawk Hollow Road in Homeland Division west of Lake Worth. She died of blunt trauma to her neck.
— SEPT. 16: Charles Grammatico, 70, of West Palm Beach. Grammatico, owner of Blue Cricket bar in the 6600 block of South Dixie Highway, was asleep inside when a burglar apparently entered and broke into the game machines. He surprised the burglar, who stabbed him with a knife and beat him with a cue stick.
— SEPT. 28: Judith Jean Jacques, 7 1/2 months, of West Palm Beach. She allegedly was beaten in the head by her 12-year-old brother, who had been left to baby-sit. She suffered a fractured skull. Her brother is being held in a juvenile detention center, charged with aggravated battery.
— OCT. 8: Herschel Palmer, 51. He died of several gunshot wounds. His body was discovered near a roadway in South Bay. Sheriff’s deputies charged James Carter.
— OCT. 9: Betty Green, 60. She was beaten in the head with a hammer by her husband, Utah Nevada Green, 67. Her husband then shot himself with a .38- caliber revolver.
— OCT. 12: James Huggins, 20, of Riviera Beach. He was shot several times and his body dumped in a field off Congress Avenue near Eighth Street in Riviera Beach.
— OCT. 17: Neville Clarke, 34, of Jamaica. He died of a chopping wound to his neck after an argument over food at an Okeelanta sugar farm turned into a racial melee between Cuban and Jamaican workers. Police think Alberto Luis Gonzales, who was also killed in the fight, killed Clarke.
— OCT. 17: Alberto Luis Gonzales, 56, of Miami. He was decapitated with a cane knife, or machete, after killing Neville Clarke during an argument over food at an Okeelanta sugar farm. No one has been charged in Gonzales’ death.
— OCT. 17: Tammi Trojanowski, 17, of Melaleuca Lane west of Lake Worth. She was shot in the lower back with a .22-caliber rifle outside a friend’s house on Douglas Avenue in West Palm Beach. Police charged her boyfriend, Tony Williams.
— OCT. 19: Michelle Jacobs, 19, of Delray Beach. She was stabbed in the chest several times. Police charged her former boyfriend, Gregory Nelams, 36, with second-degree murder.
— OCT. 24: Angel Colon, 22, of Lantana. He was shot in the abdomen in his front yard during a dispute with a man he thought had broken into his home and business, the Jinx Arcade.
— OCT. 25: Walter Whyms, 19, of Lake Worth. He was shot in the chest and abdomen with a 9mm weapon at Northwood Road and Spruce Avenue but drove himself to Good Samaritan Hospital in West Palm Beach.
— OCT. 27: Maulisia Black, 24. She was stabbed with a butcher knife during an argument with her boyfriend in a rooming house on Ninth Street in West Palm Beach. Police charged Clayton Lamar Johnson, 35, with first-degree murder.
— NOV. 2: Dieuvert Pierre, 39, of West Palm Beach. He was shot by masked home invaders after scuffling with one of the robbers. His sister was wounded in the foot by gunfire.
— NOV. 8: Blanche Taylor, 58, of New York Street west of West Palm Beach. She was found stabbed outside her home.
— NOV. 11: John Rees, 37, of Boynton Beach. Rees’ longtime girlfriend, Dora Cole, called police after Rees allegedly threatened her with a rifle because she refused to buy him drugs. Rees had a standoff with members of the Palm Beach County sheriff’s SWAT team. Dectective Scott Smith shot Rees in the chest when he reached for a loaded rifle as Smith was coming in the trailer.
— NOV. 16: Richard Guarine, 34. Off-duty Delray Beach police Sgt. Don West fatally shot Guarine during an altercation that occurred near Guarine’s home after both men left a sports bar west of Delray Beach. West fired a single shot, striking the unarmed Guarine in the upper chest. The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office is investigating, and the case has not gone before a grand jury.
— NOV. 17: Khani Nelson, 27, of West Palm Beach. He was shot in the chest during a feud with two fellow Jamaicans in West Palm Beach.
— NOV. 24: Robert Jewett, 34, of West Palm Beach. He died of blunt neck and chest trauma during an arrest by West Palm Beach police Officers Stephen Lee Rollins, 35, and Glen Thurlow, 33. The State Attorney’s Office is investigating, and the case has not gone before a grand jury.
— NOV. 26: Raul Torres, 63. Torres, a farm worker, was shot in the pelvis during a fight over a woman at a migrant worker camp near U.S. 441 and Boynton Beach Boulevard. Fellow migrant worker Ismael Ortiz was charged with first- degree murder.
— NOV. 27: Minerva Cantu, 26, of Lake Worth. Her husband found her dead in her home. The car and jewelry were missing. The car was found abandoned in Lake Worth the next day.
— NOV. 28: Eugene Robinson, 22, of Delray Beach. He was stabbed in the chest during an argument with his girlfriend, Arissa Major, 22. Major has not been charged. Police plan to present the case to a grand jury next year.
— DEC. 11: James Sisson, 30, of Greenacres. He was shot in the back while driving a station wagon in the 2400 block of Avenue M in Riviera Beach. Riviera Beach police called Sisson’s death drug-related. They charged James Wendell Warthen, 17, with second-degree murder. Warthen was due to begin serving a nine-year sentence for attempted murder on Dec. 12.
— DEC. 12: Richard Blackwell, 24, of West Palm Beach. Police think a burglary suspect turned a 9mm gun on two companions, killing Blackwell and wounding another man. Police have a suspect for the attack in the 100 block of Heritage Way but have not made an arrest.
— DEC. 25: Leostene Charlate, 28. He was found by someone fishing on Southern Boulevard. His car is missing. The medical examiner is awaiting toxicology test results before declaring a cause of death.
