BOCA RATON, FL (Boca Post) (Copyright © 2026) — A 19-year-old Boca Raton man has been arrested in connection with a fatal November crash that killed a 17-year-old pedestrian near SW 14th Street and SW 14th Avenue, according to a Boca Raton Police Services probable cause affidavit and Palm Beach County court records.
Douglas Keith Brown Jr., 19, of Boca Raton, is charged with failing to stop or remain at a crash involving death months after killing a 17-year-old boy.
Boca Post is withholding the victim’s name because he was 17 at the time of the crash. The probable cause affidavit identifies the teen and states the case was marked under Marsy’s Law/CVI.
According to the affidavit, Boca Raton police and Boca Raton Fire Rescue responded at about 2:26 a.m. on Nov. 30, 2025, after dispatch received a report of a vehicle-versus-pedestrian crash in the area of SW 14th Street and SW 14th Avenue. The teen was taken to Delray Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at about 3:08 a.m.
Police said the vehicle that struck him was no longer at the scene. Early information described it as a lifted blue Chevrolet pickup truck with silver wheels and a decal on the rear window. Officers later stopped a pickup matching that description near 899 Jeffrey Street in Boca Raton, according to the affidavit.
Investigators said the crash followed an earlier dispute involving several people who had been at a bonfire at Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge. A witness told police that he, the victim and others later returned to the victim’s Boca Raton residence. The witness said Brown called the teen by phone and arranged to meet up, according to the affidavit.
The witness told police Brown’s truck briefly stopped in front of the home, then turned northbound onto SW 14th Avenue and stopped. The teen ran toward the passenger side of the truck and stood there for about 15 to 20 seconds, the witness said. The affidavit states the truck then veered right and accelerated, running over the teen with its right rear tire.
The teen’s father also spoke with detectives at Delray Medical Center, according to the affidavit. He told police he was awakened by his son and followed him outside. He said he saw a dark-colored truck with large tires turn northbound on SW 14th Avenue. The father told detectives the truck accelerated at a high rate of speed, causing the teen to fall before the rear passenger tire ran over him.
Police later inspected a blue 2006 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 pickup truck. The affidavit states the front passenger door handle was missing, and investigators observed dents, scrapes and gouges near the rear passenger-side corner of the truck bed. A search warrant for the truck was later approved in the 15th Judicial Circuit. Police said they collected a cell phone, a front passenger door handle, a truck bed handle, pliers and DNA swabs. Crime scene personnel also reported a positive result for blood on the rear passenger-side tire using BLUESTAR, according to the affidavit.
Brown later spoke with detectives at the Boca Raton Police station after being told he was not under arrest and was free to leave, according to the affidavit. Police said he was read his Miranda warnings and signed a card saying he understood them.
In that interview, Brown told detectives he went to the area after hearing from a friend that there had been a fight earlier in the night. He said his intention was to talk. Brown told police the teen ran up to the truck, ripped off the front passenger door handle and reached into the truck through open windows, according to the affidavit. Brown also told police another person was behind the truck striking or kicking it, and said he feared for his safety and the safety of his passengers before driving away.
Brown told detectives he drove away, dropped two passengers off at Florida Atlantic University, and then headed home. He said he did not know he had struck the teen until he was sitting in the back of a police vehicle and heard someone mention the teen was in the hospital. The affidavit also states Brown said there had been “a thought in the back of my mind” that he possibly could have hit him.
Police also interviewed two passengers who had been in the truck. One passenger told investigators he felt what he described as a speed bump when Brown accelerated and said he told Brown to stop because he had run over the teen, according to the affidavit. Police said the same passenger later confirmed a Snapchat audio message in which he discussed the crash.
Investigators also obtained surveillance video from FAU. According to the affidavit, the video showed Brown’s truck pull into the parking lot at Indian River Towers. Brown and the two passengers then exited the truck and walked to the rear passenger side, looking at the tailgate, rear passenger-side corner of the bed and front passenger door handle before the two passengers walked toward the building and Brown drove away.
The Palm Beach County Medical Examiner’s Office listed the teen’s cause of death as multiple blunt force injuries and the manner of death as accident, according to the affidavit.
Court records show bond was set at $100,000. The docket also lists conditions including no driving, no contact with the next of kin, no contact with witnesses, no weapons, surrender of weapons or ammunition, and surrender of Brown’s passport to his attorney before release. The docket states Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office is to monitor in-house arrest.
An arraignment was set for May 28, 2026, before Circuit Judge Donald W. Hafele, with an initial case conference scheduled for July 9, 2026, according to the court docket.
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