Overview
- A shooting outside The Standard in Boca Raton on May 25 left two people wounded and prompted a police investigation that led to an arrest this week.
- Police say 24-year-old Christian Ippolito was taken into custody late Wednesday night and faces two counts of second-degree attempted murder with a firearm and one count of shooting into an occupied dwelling.
- One victim was shot in the chest and remains hospitalized in stable condition while a patron with a leg wound was treated and released from the hospital.
- Investigators say the shooting followed a verbal confrontation between people who knew each other and that Ippolito retrieved a handgun from his waistband and fired two rounds toward a victim.
- Separately, 25-year-old Madison Amber Levesque was arrested on felony counts for repeated written threats to kill, aggravated stalking with a credible threat, and using a communications device after detectives documented years of messages and voicemails targeting a couple.