(EAGLE PASS, Texas) — Two people have been found dead in the southern part of the Rio Grande river, officials said.
One body was found stuck in the lines of orange buoys installed by Texas authorities near the U.S.-Mexico border. A second body was discovered separately in the area of the buoys by the Beta Group of Piedras Negras, according to a statement from Mexico’s Foreign Affairs Secretary and Mexico’s Migration Institute.
The Texas Department of Public Safety notified the Mexican Consulate in Eagle Pass, Texas, on Wednesday afternoon that a person was found dead in the southern part of the floating barriers. Members of the Mexican National Institute of Migration’s assistance unit are spearheading efforts to recover the body, according to the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
“So far, the cause of death and nationality of the person is unknown,” the ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.
On Thursday, however, a source close to the investigation told ABC News that both of the people found were men. The man found by the buoys was from Mexico and is believed to have been dead for some time. The other man, who was found further away, was from Honduras. He is believed to have died more recently, the source said.
A cause of death has not been determined.
A spokesperson for the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) said a “possible drowning victim” was first spotted floating upstream from the buoys. The spokesperson said DPS notified CBP and the Mexican Consulate.
“Later that day a body was discovered at the marine barrier,” the spokesperson said.
Added DPS Director Steven McCraw: “Preliminary information suggests this individual drowned upstream from the marine barrier and floated into the buoys. There are personnel posted at the marine barrier at all times in case any migrants try to cross.”
The Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs repeated its condemnation of the buoys, calling them a “violation of our sovereignty.”
“We express our concern about the impact on the human rights and personal safety of migrants that these state policies will have, which go in the opposite direction to the close collaboration between our country and the federal government of the United States,” the ministry added. “The Ministry of Foreign Affairs will continue to follow up on the case promptly through the Mexican Consulate in Eagle Pass, maintaining contact with the corresponding authorities in Mexico and the United States to obtain more information on what happened and to request that the necessary investigations be carried out.”
The Texas Department of Public Safety, at the direction of Gov. Greg Abbott, began installing the floating barriers along portions of the Rio Grande river this summer in an effort to deter migrants from illegally crossing into the United States from Mexico.
The U.S. Department of Justice has sued Abbott over the use of the buoys.
Editor’s note: This story has been updated to reflect that one body was found near the buoys.
ABC News’ Matt Rivers, Jim Scholz, Mireya Villarreal and William Gretsky contributed to this report.
(THE VILLAGES, Fla.) — A man’s five minutes of fame at a Florida golf course is what allegedly helped officers arrest and charge him in connection with a deadly assault that took place in the course’s parking lot.
The Sumter County Sheriff’s arrested Robert Moore, 75, of the Villages, on July 27 and charged him with aggravated manslaughter on an elderly person in connection with the June 28 incident that took place at the Glenview Country Club, court documents say.
Dean Zook, 87, allegedly was heading to the club that day with his wife for dinner when his car bumped into another car parked in the lot, court documents said. A man came out asking what Zook did to his car and after Zook allegedly took responsibility and asked for insurance information, police said.
The other man allegedly punched Zook several times, according to court documents.
“The victim attempted to put his hands up to protect himself, but was unable to protect himself from the continuing punches,” court documents said.
The suspect later discovered that his car was not the one struck by Zook, but left the scene, court documents said.
Zook stumbled when police arrived on the scene and he was rushed to a hospital with bleeding in the brain, police said. He succumbed to his injuries on July 16, according to court documents.
Investigators interviewed several witnesses, looked at credit card records and reviewed surveillance footage to find the suspect, police said.
Detectives were able to allegedly match credit card purchases made at the club the day of the assault to Moore, court documents said.
They also received an anonymous tip that the suspect was named “Bob” and the tipster provided a photo from that day at another club where Moore allegedly wore the same clothes seen in surveillance footage of the incident, according to court documents.
Detectives used a Google image search on Moore and allegedly found an image of Moore from a Villages-News.com article on Nov. 8 in which he allegedly posed after making an ace at Tarpon Boil Executive Golf Course. Moore allegedly wore the same clothes that witnesses and surveillance footage captured the suspect wearing during the alleged assault, according to court documents.
On July 26, detectives went to Moore’s home to arrest him for the manslaughter incident, court documents said.
Moore allegedly told detectives that Zook tried to reverse out of the parking lot and allegedly Zook placed his hands on him, the court document alleged. Moore, who is 6-foot, 2-inches tall and approximately 210 pounds, alleged that he was defending himself against the victim, who was 5-feet, 8-inches tall and roughly 160 pounds, according to the court documents.
Attorney information for Moore was not immediately available. He was released on $30,000 bond on July 27, court documents said.
(TALLAHASSEE, Fla.) — The Florida Department of Education has effectively banned AP Psychology in the state by instructing Florida superintendents “that teaching foundational content on sexual orientation and gender identity is illegal under state law,” College Board announced Thursday.
In June, the College Board reported that it was asked by the Florida Department of Education Office of Articulation to potentially modify its courses to suit Florida law and exclude topics of gender and sexual orientation. College Board refused, saying it cannot modify courses in ways “that would censor college-level standards for credit, placement, and career readiness.”
According to College Board, the AP course asks students to “describe how sex and gender influence socialization and other aspects of development.” College Board said that sexual orientation and gender have been an element of the coursework since the AP course was launched 30 years ago.
Florida officials allegedly told state school districts that the course could be taught, but only without these topics, according to College Board. But without this required course content, the organization said the course cannot be labeled “AP” or “Advanced Placement” and the “AP Psychology” designation can’t be used on school transcripts.
The American Psychological Association and the American Council of Education stood by College Board’s policy and decision in a June statement.
“Understanding human sexuality is fundamental to psychology, and an advanced placement course that excludes the decades of science studying sexual orientation and gender identity would deprive students of knowledge they will need to succeed in their studies, in high school and beyond,” said APA CEO Arthur C. Evans Jr., in the statement.
“It strains credulity to believe that our reviewers would certify for college credit a psychology course that didn’t include gender identity,” said American Council of Education president Ted Mitchell in the College Board statement.
The Florida Department of Education denied it banned the course in a statement to ABC News.
“The Department didn’t “ban” the course. The course remains listed in Florida’s Course Code Directory for the 2023-24 school year. We encourage the College Board to stop playing games with Florida students and continue to offer the course and allow teachers to operate accordingly,” Cassie Palelis, Deputy Director of Communications for the Florida Department of Education, said in a statement.
“The other advanced course providers (including the International Baccalaureate program) had no issue providing the college credit psychology course,” she added.
Several state policies have impacted the teaching of certain topics in Florida public schools.
The Florida Department of Education passed a rule in April which states that in grades 4 through 12, instruction on sexual orientation or gender identity is prohibited “unless such instruction is either expressly required by state academic standards … or is part of a reproductive health course or health lesson for which a student’s parent has the option to have his or her student not attend,” according to the amendment.
The “Stop WOKE” Act restricts race-related curriculum and programs in workplaces and schools. College Board’s AP African American studies course was rejected by the state education department and called “inexplicably contrary to Florida law and significantly lacks educational value” by a Florida DOE official.
This is the latest effort from Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration in its war on “woke”-ness, or marginalized identities, in education.
“We seek normalcy, not philosophical lunacy, we will not allow reality, facts and truth to become optional. We will never surrender to the woke mob. Florida is where woke goes to die,” DeSantis said during his Jan. 3 inauguration.
More than 28,000 Florida students took AP Psychology in the 2022-23 academic year, according to College Board. Tens of thousands of students will be impacted by the state’s decision, the organization states.
“The AP Program will do all we can do to support schools in their plans for responding to this late change,” the announcement read.
(NAPA VALLEY, Calif.) — Rising temperatures are shifting the growing season in Napa Valley’s wine country, which could impact grape growth and alter the types of wine that originate from the region, according to new research and wine experts.
The wine grape-growing season in California’s Napa Valley, which has historically relied on a consistent Mediterranean-like climate, is now occurring nearly a month earlier than it did in the 1950s because of warming temperatures in the region, scientists at the University of California San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography found after analyzing local temperature records spanning between 1958 to 2016.
When the study period began, average daily temperatures typically first exceeded 50 degrees Fahrenheit consistently around April 1, according to the study, published in International Journal of Climatology. By 2016, the growing season generally began around March 1, the researchers found.
Temperature is “vital” for grape growth and grape characteristics, Scripps Institution of Oceanography research meteorologist Daniel Cayan and author of the study, told ABC News. Temperature characteristics have “well-known” impacts on grape growth and grape quality.
Any changes to the grapes could also affect the quality of the region’s signature wine, Napa Valley vintners told ABC News.
“If you want to be in the wine business, you want to be growing grapes. With quality wine, you want to match your varieties to your particular environment, your heat environment,” John Caldwell, an owner of the Caldwell Vineyard in the Napa Valley, told ABC News.
Napa Valley has warmed between 1 and 2 degrees Fahrenheit since the 1930s, according to a 2011 report by the Napa Valley Vintners trade association. The region’s climate is unique because it is affected by both cooler maritime influences and inland heat, the researchers said.
The strongest changes took hold in the 1970s and warmed “pretty dramatically” through the 1990s, which lines up with the large-scale North Pacific climate shift that commenced in the mid-1970s, Cayan said.
“Wine grapes offer a super interesting lens through which we can view climate variation,” Cayan said.
The average temperature of the last 45 days of the growing season also warmed by more than 3 degrees Fahrenheit during the study period, according to the paper.
The continued anomalous warmth of the last seven years combined with projected further warming strongly suggests that an additional 1 degree Fahrenheit of warming is likely within the next three decades, along with more significant and more frequent bouts of extreme heat, the researchers said.
The changes in Napa Valley reflect warming trends seen elsewhere in the western U.S. where temperatures overall have risen about 2 degrees Fahrenheit since the 1950s as well, the researchers said. Napa has shown a significant reduction in the occurrence of cool extremes and an increased occurrence of warm extremes.
“There’s been widespread warming in western North American climate,” Cayan said. “That is quite well known to the both of the climate community and to stakeholders in the region.”
The study also looked at the time required to bring wine grapes to maturity, including measuring the occurrence of extreme hot days that may be detrimental to grape quality and the temperature during the final 45 days before grapes mature — a period that is vital in determining grapes’ sugar content and flavor.
The grapes will also mature about a month earlier than they did in the 1950s, but the actual harvest date is more changeable, as some vintners may make stylistic choices to delay harvest, according to the study.
“This is a remarkable long-term shift given that wine grapes require about six months to mature on the vine and most year-to-year fluctuations in the growing season start were typically limited to about three weeks,” Cayan said in a statement following the publishing of the study.
The paper aimed to chart the effects the growing influence of human-caused climate change, as well as effects from natural climate variations, such as the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, on the seasonal rhythms and shorter term temperature extremes in Napa Valley. The research was funded by Napa Valley Vintners and supported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the U.S. Geological Survey.
It is important for the Napa vintners to have a strong understanding of how weather and climate are varying, Cayan said. Going forward, vintners will need to carefully monitor the climate, especially during certain times of year, like the harvest, when temperatures are vital, Cayan said.
“Our livelihood is very much impacted by the climate,” Hugh Davies, president of Schramsberg Vineyards and Davies Vineyards in the Napa Valley, told ABC News.
Climate changes are likely to drive Napa growers to continue to innovate by introducing novel growing practice and grape varieties that might be more heat-tolerant, Cayan said.
If the environment gets warmer, growers will have to choose new varieties, Caldwell said.
“You change your whole viticulture, is what you do, just to match your weather,” Caldwell said.
Napa hasn’t seen enough of an extreme increase in heat to necessitate a change in grape varieties yet, but it is a topic that Caldwell and other growers in the region are already immersing themselves in, he said.
Other historical wine growing regions, such as France or Italy, already share similar concerns regarding the continued viability of their grape varieties and systems of agriculture due to a warming climate. Vineyards are beginning to pop up in Southern England due to the warming climate, a notion that would have been “unheard of” three or four decades ago, Caldwell said.
“We are in a global warming period,” Caldwell said. “It will certainly change varieties all over the world.”
But every year is different, Davies said.
The harvest this year is at least three weeks late, Jamey Whetstone, owner of the Whetstone Wine Cellars in Napa, told ABC News over email.
“This is shaping up to be one of the latest harvests,” Davies said. This year’s cabernets, which rely on very ripe grapes, may suffer as a result, he added.
(BUENA, NJ) — Two people were injured and another four remain unaccounted for after a house exploded in New Jersey on Thursday, police said.
Police responded to reports of a house fire around 10:35 a.m. ET in the South Jersey town of Buena, according to Franklin Township Police Chief Matt DeCesari. The incident was confirmed to have been an explosion, he said.
An infant was removed from the residence and was being transported to a burn center in Pennsylvania, DeCesari said. A woman believed to be in her 20s or 30s was also taken to a burn center with non-life-threatening injuries, he said.
Four people remain unaccounted for following the blast, DeCesari said.
“We have not determined where these four people are,” he said.
The individuals are believed to be mostly from one family, though a friend may have been staying at the house, DeCesari said.
Several houses on the block sustained damage in the explosion but all residents have been evacuated and there were no additional injuries, DeCesari said.
The investigation is being deemed a criminal one at this early stage, DeCesari said.
“It was an explosion, we don’t know what caused it,” DeCesari told reporters at a press briefing Thursday afternoon. “We are treating it as a criminal investigation at this point until we determine otherwise.”
Multiple fire departments responded to the scene and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives was also en route, DeCesari said.
Footage from the scene showed the home had been reduced to debris. A person who works nearby told Philadelphia ABC station WPVI he heard a loud “boom” and felt the explosion, then saw smoke coming from the house.
“This is just something that’s very tragic,” DeCesari said. “This is a small community. Everybody seems to know each other. And when you have an incident like this, it really hits everyone.”
(BUENA, NJ) — Two people are dead and another two remain missing after a house exploded in New Jersey on Thursday, police said.
A young child and a teenager also suffered burn injuries in the explosion, police said.
Police responded to reports of a house fire around 10:35 a.m. ET in the South Jersey town of Buena, according to Franklin Township Police Chief Matthew DeCesari. The incident was confirmed to have been an explosion, he said.
A 1-year-old girl was flown to St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children in Philadelphia in critical condition, DeCesari said. A 16-year-old girl was also flown to the hospital and is in stable condition, he said.
Four other people are believed to have been in the house at the time of the explosion, based on interviews with family members — a 2.5-year-old boy, a 3.5-year-old girl, a 52-year-old man and a 73-year-old man, DeCesari said. Two bodies have been recovered from the rubble, though authorities are unable to determine their ages, genders or races, he said.
“We are working diligently to shift through that rubble and attempt to locate the other two individuals,” DeCesari said.
The relationships of the victims is unclear, DeCesari said.
Several houses in the immediate area sustained damage in the explosion; residents were evacuated and there were no additional injuries, DeCesari said.
The investigation is being deemed a criminal one at this early stage, DeCesari said.
“It was an explosion, we don’t know what caused it,” DeCesari told reporters at a press briefing Thursday afternoon. “We are treating it as a criminal investigation at this point until we determine otherwise.”
Multiple fire departments responded to the scene. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, FBI and New Jersey State Police are also assisting in the investigation, DeCesari said.
“All indications are this thing went up very fast and it was a lot to try to fight,” DeCesari said of the fire.
Footage from the scene showed the home had been reduced to debris. A person who works nearby told Philadelphia ABC station WPVI he heard a loud “boom” and felt the explosion, then saw smoke coming from the house.
“This is just something that’s very tragic,” DeCesari said. “This is a small community. Everybody seems to know each other. And when you have an incident like this, it really hits everyone.”
Police are asking the public to share any cell phone or Ring camera footage captured prior to or during the explosion.
(NEW YORK) — A New York City Fire Department emergency medical technician was arrested and charged with stealing $600 from an undercover investigator posing as a sick patient.
The investigator went undercover after receiving allegations of theft involving the EMT, according to the NYC Department of Investigation.
Luis Carrillo Jr., 43, was charged with felony grand larceny in the fourth degree and misdemeanor petit larceny and official misconduct. Upon conviction, the felony is punishable with up to four years in prison and the misdemeanors are punishable with a year in prison.
Carrillo was arraigned in Queens Criminal Court Wednesday night and released on his own recognizance.
He is scheduled to appear in court again on Oct. 6.
“This defendant took an oath to provide emergency medical assistance with diligence and compassion, but instead used his position to steal from an individual who appeared to be in need of care, according to the charges. The disgraceful charged conduct stands in stark contrast to the FDNY’s countless EMTs who act with honor and integrity every day, delivering critical care to New Yorkers in need,” Jocelyn Strauber, the commissioner of NYC’s Department of Investigation, said in a statement.
The undercover test was conducted around 3:30 a.m. on Wednesday when an investigator posed as a sick patient in need of medical attention. Under DOI surveillance, the undercover investigator was then transferred in an ambulance to Elmhurst Hospital in Queens.
The undercover investigator saw the EMT remove his wallet while in the ambulance, which contained $1,100 in marked bills. Once the investigator was dropped off at the hospital, he discovered that $690 was missing from his wallet, according to the DOI.
DOI stopped the ambulance after it left the hospital and was able to recover $600 in marked bills from the EMT’s right pocket and arrested him. Investigators did not find the other missing $90.
Carrillo, who was suspended upon his arraignment, has been an EMT since October 2012.
The DOI thanked Fire Commissioner Laura Kavanagh for the department’s “assistance” with the sting operation.
(WASHINGTON) — Former President Donald Trump is set to appear in federal court on Thursday on charges in connection with his alleged criminal attempts to overturn the result of the 2020 presidential election.
Trump was charged with four counts as part of special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation: conspiracy to defraud the United States; conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding; obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding and conspiracy against rights.
The former president has been summoned to appear before Magistrate Judge Moxila Upadhyaya in Washington, D.C., for his arraignment on his third indictment.
Upadhyaya was appointed as a U.S. Magistrate judge on Sept. 7, 2022, according to her D.C. District Court biography. A U.S. magistrate judge is appointed by majority vote of the active district judges of the court. A full-time magistrate judge serves an eight-year term and has the authority to conduct preliminary proceedings in criminal cases, such as arraignments, among other duties.
Upadhyaya was born in born in Gujarat, India, and raised near Kansas City, Missouri. She graduated from the University of Missouri and went on to receive her law degree from American University, Washington College of Law.
After law school, Upadhyaya clerked for two years for the Honorable Eric Washington, former chief judge of the D.C. Court of Appeals, then joined the law firm Venable LLP where she practiced complex commercial and administrative litigation. Through her pro bono practice, which was focused on representing indigent clients in post-conviction proceedings, Venable named Upadhyaya its Pro Bono Lawyer of the Year in 2006 and the Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project awarded her its Defender of Innocence Award in 2009.
Upadhyaya first joined the D.C. District Court in 2011, when she served as the first law clerk to the Honorable Robert Wilkins through 2012 during his prior tenure as a district judge. She then returned to Venable, where she ultimately became a partner and continued her litigation practice until being appointed to the bench.
From 2021 to 2022, Upadhyaya was appointed to serve on the D.C. District Court’s Committee on Grievances, which investigates complaints against attorneys.
The judge has served on the Board of Directors for the D.C. Access to Justice Foundation and Council for Court Excellence and is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.
The former president has denied all wrongdoing. In a brief interview with ABC News on Tuesday, Trump called the new charges a “pile on” and, like his other indictments, “ridiculous.”
He is expected to enter a plea of not guilty during his arraignment on Thursday.
(EAGLE PASS TX) — The Texas Department of Public Safety arrested several fathers seeking asylum in the United States last month, resulting in them being separated from their families, according to an attorney with Texas RioGrande Legal Aid.
Twenty-six fathers have been separated from their families that the legal aid agency is aware of, with many of them being arrested on trespassing charges, Audrey Mulholland, a TRLA attorney, told ABC News. Those arrests occurred between July 10 and 14.
“It’s very unclear to these families what’s happening and why they are being separated,” she said. “The fathers have told me that their children are hanging on to them and crying and really distraught as they see their fathers arrested and taken away from them.”
She remarked how similar their clients’ accounts were.
When asylum seekers reach the river, Texas DPS officers — instead of immigration officers — direct them to a certain point in it, Mulholland said. “They are the ones that [are] kind of directing them to enter up on the riverbank.”
Muholland said asylum seekers have told her the officers first call for single men and women to cross. Both groups are then arrested, she said. Next, the officers call for families to cross, directing men to one side and women and children to the other, Muholland said. The fathers are arrested and then go to state prison, she said.
“I am not entirely sure what they’re being advised in that moment as the reason for their arrest,” she said, referring to the separated fathers. “But I do know the one thing I’ve heard from all of them that extremely perplexed them was that they were told that they would be reunited with their families later in immigration custody, which just hasn’t happened.”
Mulholland said she believes there’s a lot of confusion among asylum seekers about where they’re supposed to present themselves.
She also claimed that Texas DPS has been making arrests on the premise that the asylum seekers trespassed onto private property.
A Texas DPS spokesperson told ABC News in a statement that, “There have been instances in which DPS has arrested male migrants on state charges who were with their family when the alleged crime occurred. Children and their mothers were never separated, but instead turned over to the US Border Patrol together.”
In response to the report that Texas troopers have been separating migrant families at the border, a White House spokesperson said in a written statement that “Governor Abbott’s reckless actions continue to undermine our border management plan which has proven effective in decreasing irregular migration to the Southwest Border. As the President has said multiple times, the Trump Administration’s family separation policy was abhorrent and unconscionable. Any effort to replicate that violates every notion of who we are as a nation.”
ABC News reached out to Abbott’s office for comment.
A spokesperson from the Department of Homeland Security said, “This report is troubling and should be thoroughly investigated. We can both enforce our laws and treat human beings with dignity. Unlawful border crossings have gone down since our border enforcement plan went into effect and remain well below the levels seen under the Title 42 public health Order. Managing our border in a safe and humane way works best when we all work together to respect the dignity of every human being and keep our communities safe.”
Former Senior DHS Official and ABC News Contributor John Cohen said that during the Trump administration the country learned “family separation practices were highly problematic.”
The alleged separation of fathers from families “is beyond disturbing and may result in further civil action by the Department of Justice,” Cohen said, adding that a state law enforcement organization “has zero authority to enforce federal immigration laws.”
According to Mulholland, it’s difficult to say when the families will be reunited due to the separated members having to go through different proceedings.
The mothers and children who were first processed by border patrol might have been given release documents and referred for an immigration court hearing, she said, while the fathers when they go through immigration custody are being placed in expedited removal.
“We do believe this is a new state-sponsored family separation and this is just another kind of step that the state of Texas is taking to try and dissuade desperate asylum seekers,” Mulholland said. “It is just another step in which they are entering kind of the federal immigration enforcement realm.”
(DELRAY BEACH, FL) — A man has been arrested for premeditated murder after human remains belonging to his wife were found in three suitcases in Florida last month, court records show.
The three suitcases were uncovered in the Intracoastal Waterway on July 21, after someone called 911 to report something strange in the waterway, the Delray Beach Police Department said.
The remains were believed to be that of “a white or Hispanic middle-aged woman with brown hair and approximately 5’4″ tall,” police said amid their investigation following the gruesome discovery. One of the suitcases had a sticker with the name, “Latam, MIA, Barbosa,” on it, according to the probable cause affidavit.
The investigation, including reviewing surveillance footage, led police to execute a search warrant on Monday in the home of William Lowe, 78, of Delray Beach, court records show. They found “blood spatter throughout the residence,” including in the living room, dining room and primary bathroom, according to the affidavit.
A search of Lowe’s storage unit also uncovered a chainsaw that appeared to have blood and other human remains on it, according to the affidavit.
During an interview with police on Monday, Lowe reportedly said that his wife, Aydil Barbosa Fontes, had been in Brazil for “about 3 weeks,” but when asked, he did not know how she got to the airport, what airline she flew or the last time he spoke to her, according to the affidavit.
When shown photos of two of the suitcases the victim’s remains were found in, Lowe reportedly said he had never seen them before, according to the affidavit. When asked by police why there would be a sticker with his wife’s name on it on one of the suitcases, he reportedly replied, “I don’t know,” according to the affidavit.
On Tuesday, the Palm Beach County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the victim through dental records as Aydil Barbosa Fontes, according to the affidavit. The medical examiner determined the manner of death to be homicide and the cause of death to be a gunshot wound to the head, according to the affidavit.
Lowe was booked into the Palm Beach County jail on Wednesday on first-degree premeditated murder and abuse of a dead body, online jail records show. It is unclear if he has an attorney who can speak on his behalf.
