In a parking lot across the Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts theater, near where Romen Phelps lost his life, family and loved ones of the 33-year-old gathered Saturday to remember their son, classmate and friend.
Seniors at Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts in West Palm Beach graduated Friday, marking an end to their impressive high school career, exactly one week after a chaotic and deadly police-involved shooting on campus.
Students returned to Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts in West Palm Beach on Monday, just three days after a police officer shot and killed a former student who crashed a van through a locked entrance on campus.
An off-duty West Palm Beach police officer who just happened to be driving by Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts moments after a van crashed through the locked entrance to campus was forced to fire a single shot at the driver who "violently attacked" him, police say.
The person who was driving a van in the wrong direction and crashed onto the Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts campus in downtown West Palm Beach was shot and killed by police after an altercation.