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A racially-charged encounter between two teenagers and an unidentified man in Palm Beach has stunned residents this past weekend.
According to The Palm Beach Post, the altercation took place Sunday when 15-year-old Breonna Nelson-Hicks was followed to her friend’s home by an irate resident.
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According to her grandfather, Tony Nelson, a 33-year Wellington resident — and a member of one of the area’s first Black families – that afternoon his granddaughter and four other teens were riding around their neighborhood in a golf cart when a stranger began following them in his Toyota sedan.
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According to a police report filed that afternoon, the group was frightened and split up and opted to walk the rest of the way to one of their homes.
Palm Beach Sherriff’s Office spokeswoman Teri Barbera stated in an email that the man claimed he “almost hit the golf cart being driven by” the teenagers.
