The police presence continued Saturday morning around the 365 Ocean boutique extended-stay hotel on State Road A1A in Boca Raton where police say two people were shot and killed Friday and another injured in the hotel's parking lot. Police reopened A1A near the hotel to traffic around midnight. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
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A shooting in the parking lot of an extended stay hotel across from Boca Raton’s South Beach Park left two people dead and another injured Friday afternoon, police say.
The shooting occurred shortly before 5 p.m. at 365Ocean, Boca Raton police spokeswoman Jessica Desir said.
“It appears there was some type of dispute in the parking lot of 365 N. Ocean Blvd., which is an extended-stay hotel,” Desir posted on the department’s account on X, formerly Twitter. “The suspect left the area and investigators are following up.”
Boca Raton police at the scene of a Sept. 20 shooting at 365 Ocean, directly across from the entrance to the South Beach Park parking lot. Two people were killed and a third injured in the shooting. Coastal Star staff photo
Desir, on the scene, told reporters that the dead were a man and a woman. Another man was transported to the hospital, she said.
Police closed off a section of A1A – also known as North Ocean Boulevard – from about the 800 block south to Palmetto Park Road. That portion of A1A reopened to traffic around midnight, police say.
After the shooting, the heaviest police presence was directly across from the entrance to the South Beach Park parking lot. Police were gathered at the corner of A1A and Northeast Fourth Street, next to 365 Ocean, which describes itself as a boutique extended-stay hotel.
This story was originally published at 7:24 p.m. Sept. 20 and has since been updated.
Boca Raton police on Sept. 20 at the scene of a shooting, 365 N. Ocean Blvd., an extended-stay hotel called 365 Ocean. Two people were killed and a third injured in the incident at the hotel, a few blocks north of Palmetto Park Road. Coastal Star staff photo
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