10:40 a.m. update: The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office has identified the man arrested at Monday night's vigil as Dustyn McCoy, 21, of suburban West Palm Beach.
Original post: More than 100 people gathered Monday night near Royal Palm Beach High School to remember Bryan Valentin, who died in a fatal crash Monday.
The group was lighting candles under the tree at Okeechobee Boulevard and Wildcat Way around which Valentin, 18, wrapped his modified 1994 Honda Civic that had both the seat belts and airbags removed. The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office arrived to find the group blocking traffic.
When asked to leave Okeechobee Boulevard’s middle median and continue the vigil on the sides of the street, the group refused to move and began throwing water bottles at the officers, the sheriff’s office said late Monday.
After multiple warnings, police shot “non-lethal pepper ball rounds” into the ground, according to the sheriff’s statement. The crowd dispersed, with the exception of an unidentified man said, “I am not moving. You are going to have to shoot me,” the report says.
The man was arrested for resisting arrest and unlawful assembly.
The area was cleared just after 9 p.m., the sheriff’s office said.
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