BOCA RATON – Local police arrested a Lake Worth man July 21 for
allegedly trying to shoot his ex-girlfriend, a police report said.
Public Information Officer Sandra Boonenberg said officers arrested
Dalis Maurice Bell, 28, in Port St. Lucie after he allegedly fled from
the scene in Boca.
Reports say police responded about 7:25 a.m. to a report of a male
firing a gun in an occupied residence at Mizner Court Condominiums,
6503 North Military Trail.
Andrea Miller, the victim, and her boyfriend Kunta Kinte Riddick, told
officers that Dalis Bell, Miller’s ex-boyfriend, had been calling her
since shortly after 5 a.m. Miller told police she briefly spoke with Bell
when he first called, but she eventually turned the ringer off on her
phone and did not speak to him again.
Just after 7 a.m., police said. Miller and Riddick heard a loud
knocking on the front door, but did not open it because the peephole
was covered. When they did not open the door, Bell kicked it open
and entered the apartment, police said.
Riddick wrestled Bell to the ground and Miller told Bell to leave.
Police said that as he ran away he said, “I got something for you.” He
went to the car and got a gun, police said.
Bell then returned to the stairs leading to the apartment and as
Miller was closing the front door, he allegedly fired a round from the
handgun. The shot went through the door and past Miller’s head, but
she was not injured.
The driver of the Oldsmobile picked up Bell and Boca Raton
detectives tracked the car to Port St. Lucie where Bell was arrested
without incident by deputies of the Port St. Lucie County Sheriff’s
Office.
He is charged with attempted first degree murder with a firearm,
burglary with assault/battery and felon in possession of a firearm.