Two brothers were arrested Tuesday in the July 14 2011 death of Jacques Novembre, a father of five and grandfather of 11. The 61-year-old security guard was found beaten last summer behind Promenade Shopping Plaza on Alternate A1A.
The tall, bespectacled Novembre never awoke. He died in Kindred Hospital in Riviera Beach on Sept. 29.
“There is no joy today. Our dad was our life,” said daughter Frantzcesse, balancing her three-year-old son Quentin on her knee.
Joseph Frisbee, 28, and Stephen Frisbee, 33, could get the death penalty if convicted of the first-degree murder charges. The brothers– Stephen from Jacksonville, Joseph from suburban West Palm Beach– tried to steal a brass backflow device from behind the shopping center. The water-control devices can be sold to scrap dealers for cash, police said.
Novembre, who was on duty, interrupted them. The brothers beat him with a shovel. They stole his necklace, bracelet and wallet. Novembre’s nose was broken, and he suffered severe facial and skull fractures, police said.
The brothers took the backflow device and left Novembre unconscious behind the plaza.
That same day, Stephen sold the bracelet for $ 435 at a Lantana pawn shop. He sold several backflow devices the next day to a scrap metal dealer for $ 300 in Pompano Beach. The store owners called police.
“Various witnesses also called Crime Stoppers of Palm Beach County and provided information,” said Gardens Police Chief Stephen Stepp at the press conference at the Gardens police station called to announce the arrests.
Article from Private Officer International