A Marjory Stoneman Douglas High graduate and her mother were killed in the attack Saturday that also left a police officer wounded and another person hospitalized in critical condition.
Hannah Bonta and her mother, Jan Kirkland, were dead. The younger woman’s boyfriend, Craig Newman, was critically wounded. Police officer Andrew Renna was shot in his police car as he responded to the violence in the Coral Pointe subdivision.
All except the police officer were stabbed, police spokesman Scotty Leamon said Sunday. A pit bill dog also was found dead in the house, apparently shot, Leamon said.
Bonta played on the Stoneman Douglas softball team and was studying to be a nurse, She was “a bright light to everyone that talked to her,” friend Kacie Cahill said. Bonta “wanted to help people,” her friend said.
Bonta graduated from the Parkland high school months before a former student killed 17 staff and students and injured 17 others on Feb. 14, 2018.
Bonta’s mother, Kirkland, “could put a smile on anyone’s face and was the life of the party anywhere she went,” Cahill said. Bonta and Newman were “so in love” and perfect together, Cahill said.
Jason Dale Roseman, 44, was arrested and charged with two counts of premeditated murder and two counts of attempted premeditated murder, including one on a law enforcement officer. He also was charged with a probation violation.
During a court appearance Monday, Roseman was ordered to remain in jail without bond.
Cahill said Roseman was Kirkland’s boyfriend. Police said they think Roseman was living at the home where violence erupted about 7 a.m. Saturday, when a next-door resident called 911 to say someone was knocking on her door asking for help.
Renna was the first arriving officer. As he pulled up, he was met with multiple shotgun blasts that came through the passenger’s side door and window of his patrol car and punctured his right lung, police said. Renna, 30, was listed in stable condition at Broward Health North Medical Center.
Two other officers arriving at the scene saw Roseman standing in the intersection of Northwest 42nd Way and 56th Drive holding a shotgun. He dropped his gun and surrendered, police said.
Kirkland’s body was found inside the house in the 4200 block of Northwest 57th Drive, along with the dead pit bull. Bonta’s body was found on a neighbor’s driveway, and Newman was on a driveway of a different home. He was taken to Broward Health North, police said.
A police report shows that Roseman, who is originally from Hickory, N.C., was arrested in a domestic violence case at an address not far from Saturday’s shooting scene in Coconut Creek on Aug. 24, 2017.
Prosecutors charged Roseman with aggravated assault with intent to commit a felony, domestic battery by strangulation and “touch or strike/battery/domestic violence.”
The state dropped the first charge, records show. The court withheld adjudication after he pleaded no contest to the other charges and was placed on probation through next year. As part of the probation, he was assigned to spend time in a sober house and spend 26 weeks in an intervention program for batterers.
A team from the Broward Sheriff’s Office bomb squad checked the inside of the home where the shooting happened and found several rifles and something that looked like an IED homemade explosive device, but it was later determined to be fake.
An earlier version of this article incorrectly reported that victims other than the officer were shot. Also, Hannah Bonta was not a current student at Florida Atlantic University.
Staff writers Wayne K. Roustan and David Lyons contributed to this report.
