It was Sunday just before 7 p.m. when the peaceful quiet on the 15th hole of the Kings Point Golf Course was shattered by the sound of gunshots and retirees watching from their balconies were shocked to see a 74-year-old man shooting at a dog-walking neighbor.
Deputies arrived to find Herbert Merritt, 64, lying on the ground, a “gunshot wound to his left ankle,” according to a Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office arrest report.
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Nearby, they found Robert Levine, with a “black semi-automatic handgun in his front left pocket.”
Merritt told deputies he was walking his dog on the grass next to the golf course when Levine rode up in his golf cart and “...