Body Dragged, Dumped. Suspect Now In Custody.
BY: 24/7 CRIME DESK | BocaNewsNow.com
PALM BEACH COUNTY, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright © 2024 MetroDesk Media, LLC) — A man living near Macon, Georgia was taken into custody and charged with the 2023 murder of a Palm Beach County man. The victim, according to police, was dumped on the side of the road in the western part of West Palm Beach. Gary Tromane Everett, 46, formerly of Palm Beach County, was arrested at his apartment in Milledgeville, GA, northeast of Macon, on a warrant for a murder four months earlier in Florida.
West Palm Beach police shared this information with BocaNewsNow.com:
At 3:30 a.m. October 10, 2023, a 911 caller to the West Palm Beach Emergency Communications Center reported seeing someone dragging a body from a car near 45th Street and Military Trail.
Officers found the victim, Victor Devore Howard, 37, of Lake Park, barely alive. He died an hour later at St. Mary’s Medical Center. Around 4 a.m. October 10, Everett flagged down a Riviera Beach police officer at Blue Heron Boulevard and Congress Avenue and said his cousin had been shot in Gramercy Park, in unincorporated Palm Beach County. Sheriff’s deputies responded to Gramercy Park and determined no shooting occurred there. Everett made statements to Riviera Beach police that were refuted and through the resulting investigation by West Palm Beach Homicide Unit detectives, evidence was obtained that confined Everett was the shooter, and the murder took place inside the car, which was the victim’s work car.
The Palm Beach County medical examiner determined Howard was killed by a single gunshot to the head. Among evidence recovered was a single bullet casing in the car Detectives also determined that a large sum of cash was taken from the victim
At the time, Everett failed to provide any information about how Howard was shot, or why he had Howard’s car with blood all over him. Everett was booked into the Georgia Baldwin County Jail on a charge of second-degree murder with a firearm. His extradition to Florida is pending.
