A woman who was shot and killed by her boyfriend in Coral Springs earlier this week was fondly remembered as a beautiful soul by her loved ones. Officials said Paul Digiacinto shot and killed his girlfriend inside his parents’ home Monday. Friends identified the girlfriend as Kyla Arce. They weren’t comfortable showing their faces on camera Wednesday and didn’t want to be identified, but they wanted to show through dozens of photos what 20 years of friendship looks like. “Why did this happen? Why did this happen to our beloved friend?” one friend said. “I don’t think I can imagine a life witho ..read more

A 19-year-old is facing charges in a 2022 armed home invasion robbery in which the victim was stabbed and beaten with an AK-47-type weapon, authorities said. Dorshawn Montez Charles Tate Jr. was arrested Wednesday in the Sept. 26, 2022 robbery, court records showed. Dorshawn Montez Charles Tate Jr. The incident happened at an apartment building in the 3700 block of Terrapin Lane. The victim told investigators he’d opened his door briefly to retrieve an Amazon package when 6 to 8 masked men wearing all black entered his home with rifles and handguns, court records showed. The records said Tate ..read more

A Broward County mother is speaking out after she said a teacher allegedly physically abused her 4-year-old son who has autism. Delmy Alvarado said she didn’t find out that something happened until she got a call from police weeks after it happened. “I was flabbergasted. I was upset. I was appalled. I was furious,” she said. “I was all the things that a parent would be.” Alvarado said she got a phone call from Coral Springs Police on Monday afternoon. She said a detective told her that there was an investigation involving her 4-year-old son, who was allegedly grabbed aggressively by his teache ..read more

A former Coral Springs school employee is facing several charges after she allegedly stole tuition and registration fees over the course of five years — using it to pay her bills and even go on vacation. Maria Velasco, 39, worked as an administrative assistant at Center Academy Coral Springs, when the fraudulent payments were discovered back in 2022, authorities said. The school, located along Riverside Drive, caters to children with disabilities. Police say the administration realized school fee payments were intentionally diverted into a bank accounts controlled by Velasco in December of 202 ..read more

New surveillance video shows a Fort Lauderdale Police detention officer surrendering to authorities hours after he allegedly shot and killed his girlfriend at a Coral Springs apartment complex with her young daughter nearby. The video released Tuesday shows 21-year-old Chase Harder sitting in the lobby of the Coral Springs Police Department, not long after his girlfriend, 24-year-old Dayanna Hurtado, had been found shot to death. Harder, wearing a red Nike tank top, black shorts and slide sandals, appears to be calmly chatting on his phone in the video. Moments later, officers can be heard yel ..read more

A Fort Lauderdale Police detention officer turned himself in to face a murder charge after a fatal shooting at an apartment complex in Coral Springs Tuesday night, police said. Coral Springs Police officials said officers responded to the shooting at the apartment complex in the 9200 block of Ramblewood Drive, near the MAA Coral Springs community, just before 8:30 p.m. Officials said they’d received multiple 911 calls of shots fired, including one person who said they heard four gunshots then saw a man carrying a child over his shoulder run to a white Mercedes SUV and flee the scene. When offi ..read more

Authorities are searching for a suspect behind a frightening armed robbery at a Coral Springs gas station. The robbery happened around 5:20 a.m. on July 20 at the Chevron at 2251 N. University Drive. Officials said the suspect held a cashier at gunpoint, then fled with money from two registers. A surveillance image showed the masked suspect holding a gun to the cashier’s head as the worker appears to be opening a register. A $5,000 reward is being offered for information leading to an arrest in the robbery. Anyone with information is asked to call Broward Crime Stoppers at 954-493-TIPS ..read more

A third man has been charged for an armed robbery where the victim was shot in the face in a Coral Springs barber shop. Renaldo Jean, 22, was arrested Tuesday for the robbery and shooting that happened about 11:35 p.m. July 13 in the High Def Barbershop at 7664 Wiles Road, police said. Trae Butler, 18, and Richard Fowler, 20, were arrested soon after the armed robbery, but it took more than three months to track down Jean, court records show. Renaldo Jean, Trae Butler, Richard Fowler According to the arrest reports, Jean and Butler fired the shots while stealing two gold chains, a gold br ..read more

He said he was just getting his mother some jewelry for her birthday, but instead of money he had a gun and now he’s spending her birthday in jail, police said. Everton Francis, 18, entered the Lauderhill Jewelry Exchange about 3:30 p.m. on Oct. 12 and was shown a gold necklace and pendant worth $4,700. He told the employee he was going to shop around, according to an arrest report. The Coral Springs man returned about 40 minutes later to make the purchase, but when the employee lay the gold Cuban chain necklace and pendant on the counter Francis grabbed them and ran out of the store, the repo ..read more

A North Lauderdale man is facing several grand theft charges for a series of store thefts in May. Denzel Ezekiel Xavier Wilson, 23, was arrested Tuesday and remains in the Broward County Jail without bond. According to the arrest reports, Wilson walked into a Best Buy store in Plantation May 29 and grabbed several baby monitors and watches worth $1,178 and left without paying. Before that, Wilson and alleged accomplice Curtis Lee Plummer, 44, entered a Walmart in Coral Springs May 25 and stole several electronics worth nearly $2,760 then drove off in a waiting car. Both were stopped and arrest ..read more