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By Joel Malkin Jan 27, 2021 The West Palm Beach Police Department is offering a $5,000 reward in the murder of a college baseball player. Officers found the body of 21-year old Derek Becker inside his apartment along Community Drive last month. Cops say the infielder, who played for Keiser University and was named after Miami Marlins CEO Derek Jeter, had been shot to death. While the police department is offering the $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Becker's killer, folks who call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-458-TIPS with information could be eligible for a...

By Joel Malkin Jan 27, 2021 The West Palm Beach Police Department is offering a $5,000 reward in the murder of a college baseball player. Officers found the body of 21-year old Derek Becker inside his apartment along Community Drive last month. Cops say the infielder, who played for Keiser University and was named after Miami Marlins CEO Derek Jeter, had been shot to death. While the police department is offering the $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Becker's killer, folks who call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-458-TIPS with information could be eligible for a...

By Joel Malkin Jan 27, 2021 The West Palm Beach Police Department is offering a $5,000 reward in the murder of a college baseball player. Officers found the body of 21-year old Derek Becker inside his apartment along Community Drive last month. Cops say the infielder, who played for Keiser University and was named after Miami Marlins CEO Derek Jeter, had been shot to death. While the police department is offering the $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Becker's killer, folks who call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-458-TIPS with information could be eligible for a...

One person is dead in a second Christmas Eve shooting in South Florida, police say David J. Neal and David Ovalle, The Miami Herald Dec. 24—A second shooting in South Florida on Christmas Eve has left another man dead. The shooting happened around 11 a.m. in the 1700 block of Northwest Sixth Place, Fort Lauderdale police said. As with a fatal shooting in Miami-Dade at 1:23 a.m., the victim was a man sitting in a car. Fort Lauderdale paramedics took him to Broward Health Medical Center, where he died from the gunshot wounds. The Christmas Eve deaths were the fifth and sixth s...

Derek R. Becker was found inside his apartment on the 4200 block of Community Drive shortly before 12:30 a.m. Sunday, north of the Keiser campus. He was pronounced dead at the scene. The cause of death appeared to be gunfire, police said. Police are investigating Becker's death as a homicide. They did not release any details regarding the circumstances of what led to the incident. A Keiser spokeswoman confirmed Monday that Becker was a student there. The university's athletic department website lists Becker as an infielder on the baseball team and said he hails from Cohoes, N.Y., a city abou...