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FORT WALTON BEACH Three teens were caught in the act of burglarizing a car off Racetrack Road early Thursday morning and taken into custody after a brief foot chase, according to a news release from the Okaloosa County Sheriff s Office. The suspects, two 15-year-olds and a 16-year-old from the Fort Walton Beach area, are each charged with car burglary, petty theft, resisting an officer without violence and loitering or prowling. A witness called the Sheriff s Office after spotting the teens using flashlights to look into cars in the parking lot of the Chez Elan Apartment Homes complex at 317 Racetrack Road at 2:11 a.m. ....
FORT WALTON BEACH Brendon Scarver, a 23-year-old Fort Walton Beach man arrested Friday following a burglary in Destin, was charged but never prosecuted for second-degree murder following the May 20, 2019, shooting death of Cordell Smart. Smart, 19, was an innocent bystander outside a home at 110 Oakhill Avenue off Beal Parkway when a gunfight broke out between two rival groups. He had wandered unaware into a bad situation that had its origins in robbery. On the day of the fatal shooting, Gaige Monfils had told two friends he had been robbed and wanted to retaliate. A marijuana deal was arranged to lure a man named Craig Rudolph to the home on Oakhill Avenue. ....