At approximately 0100 hrs Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office responded to a middle class neighborhood after they had reports of shots fired.
Tyler Blaine Kennett was found shot, for unknown reasons. Kennett was transported to Delray Beach Medical Center where he was pronounced dead.
According to reports the shooter fired several shots into the house. Reports have not indicated how many times Kennett was hit. Kennett was spending the night with a friend and they believe he was targeted. Investigators believe the suspect went up to the window, took aim and fired.
According to reports Kennett was sitting beside a friend when the shots where fired and he said “I think I got shot”, he slumped over and someone immediately called 911.
Apparently the investigators got some tips through the county’s Crime Stoppers line. The investigators are not releasing any information on what they found at the house were Kennett was shot.
Word of Kennett's death traveled quickly on the Internet, particularly on a local motor sports page, where some posts indicated he had recently taken up racing.
Andrew Hopkins, 20, said he knew Kennett since the two were young. Shaking his head, Hopkins described his friend as energetic and fun-loving, a daredevil who executed hair-raising stunts at Ramp 48, a skateboard hangout in Broward County.
"He was a happy kid, so much energy, he was always on a dirt bike or a BMX or a skateboard," Hopkins said.
Kennett had had some trouble in school, but he was improving at Life Skills Center of Palm Beach County, an alternative charter school in Delray Beach, where he was able to apply his mechanical aptitude to studying marine mechanics, Hopkins said.
"He was very intelligent," Hopkins said, "but he had trouble with jumping through hoops."
Hopkins and others heard about the shooting in the middle of the night. Teenagers gathered in groups on driveways and lawns across from the crime scene, looking on in disbelief. Some wept and embraced as investigators' cameras flashed in the night.
"They were pumping his chest on the way out," said Hopkins, who, along with another friend, 19-year-old Hugo Bretas, walked across Kimberly Boulevard to the house where Kennett was shot. Kennett's friend's mother was home, sleeping in another bedroom, during the attack.
"It still hasn't sunk in," said Hopkins, who said Kennett's brother Cory asked him to keep an eye on Kennett while the brother was in Colorado.
Kennett's friends planned a memorial for him this morning at a small neighborhood park on the north side of Kimberly Boulevard, just east of State Road 7.
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