Lakendra Jones was 18 when she was found shot on February 1, 2015, in the 700 block of Northwest 3rd Avenue in Fort Lauderdale. She was taken to Broward Health Medical Center, where she died of her injuries. The Fort Lauderdale Police Department investigated the incident.

On April 11, 2015, investigators arrested 19-year-old Harveitz Beaubrun and 24-year-old Martelli Metellus in Riviera Beach. Beaubrun was charged with murder; Metellus was charged with accessory after the fact of murder. A neighbor reported hearing a gunshot from the direction of Beaubrun’s apartment and saw Beaubrun and Metellus carrying Jones’s body outside. The neighbor said Beaubrun discarded a shotgun over a fence and handed another firearm to a third person who fled. Beaubrun reportedly told police Jones was shot returning from a store, but a large amount of blood was found in his apartment.

Beaubrun’s record includes a juvenile no-contest plea to second-degree murder in the death of a 17-month-old cousin; he was placed in a therapeutic treatment program and given probation. Anyone with information about Lakendra Jones or the case is asked to come forward.