- April 26, 2024
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Deputies have arrested an 18-year-old and a 16-year-old for calling in a bomb threat at a local Kentucky Fried Chicken and driving around shooting at people and cars with a BB gun.
Flagler County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to the KFC at 3 Old Kings Road in Palm Coast for the bomb threat at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 27.
The restaurant and drive-thru were temporarily closed while the FCSO Explosive Detection K-9 Unit conducted a sweep of the building. No explosives were located.
At 1:49 p.m. the following day, the FCSO received a call for service stating that two juveniles were playing basketball at Ralph Carter Park when a dark colored Ford F-150 drove past the basketball court and someone in the truck began shooing at them with a BB gun.
One juvenile was struck and had a minor injury. Security footage showed two young men in the Ford F-150.
At 3:03 p.m. the same day, a driver on Royal Palms Drive and Belle Terre Parkway heard two pops and then the rear windshield shattering as she traveled down the road. It had been shattered by a BB pellet.
At 3:19 p.m., a woman returned to her car in the Walmart parking lot and found her rear window shattered by a BB pellet as well. Store surveillance showed a dark Ford F-150 pass by the victim’s car while the window shatters.
Deputies investigating the KFC incident traced the phone number that called in the bomb threat to a 16-year-old who lives on Essington Lane in Palm Coast.
The Ford F-150 involved in the BB-gun incidents was registered to his mother. Deputies made contact with the teen's mother at on Sunday evening. Shown surveillance footage, she confirmed for deputies that the suspect is her son and that the suspect vehicle was the one that he drives.
The teen admitted that he and his friend, 18-year-old Christian Boyd, were involved in all of the incidents listed above. He told deputies that Boyd made the prank call to KFC from the 16-year-old's phone and fired rounds from the BB gun at the people playing basketball and the vehicles.
“I want to start by commending our team on a job well done this weekend,” Sheriff Rick Staly said. “Not only did these two wreak havoc throughout the community by dangerously firing BB guns at incident bystanders, but they caused a great deal of resources to be tied up for hours investigating a false report of a bomb and the various shootings. They are very lucky that they didn’t cause any serious injuries. However, they damaged two vehicles and instilled fear in many people through their actions. I hope they turn their life, around and the courts teach them a serious and strong lessen.”
Christian Boyd was arrested and charged with False Report of Bomb Threat, Battery, Criminal Mischief and Shooting Projectile Into An Occupied Vehicle. He was booked into the Sheriff Perry Hall Inmate Detention Facility, where he is being held on a $9,000 bond.
The 16-year-old was arrested and charged with Accessory to False Report of a Bomb, Accessory to Battery, Accessory to Criminal Mischief, and Accessory to Shooting at a Vehicle. He was turned over to the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice and released to his parents pending a future court date.
