Man fatally shot in Pompano Beach - Sun Sentinel

"We were notified of a caller hearing seven or eight shots being fired," Pompano Beach Fire Rescue spokeswoman Sandra King said. The wounded man, identified by authorities as Patrick Jean of Pompano Beach, was pronounced dead at the hospital in Deerfield Beach, Moschella said. Several residences were barricaded in yellow crime scene tape, and the sheriff's Mobile Crime Laboratory was brought in. About 100 bystanders filled neighborhood streets, congregating outside the nearby Akel Market and sitting on stairwells... A friend of the victim, Izell Williams, 32, collapsed onto the hood of an orange GMC pickup, his face buried in his arms and his mother's arm draped across his shoulders. Williams said he and Jean had been playing dominoes with friends in the moments before the gunfire erupted. "That's a hobby of ours," Williams said, his friend's blood smeared across his white tank top. Williams said two men jumped out of a blue Mazda 6. a woman had been behind the wheel. About 20 seconds later, Williams said, he heard his friend of 11 years screaming, "Hey, they're trying to rob me. They're trying to rob me. " About seven gunshots followed, he said. "I've never seen these guys before," Williams said. Williams said Jean was a very likable person who had just begun taking real estate classes and would have turned 32 on Sept. Source: www.sun-sentinel.com