Gruesome killing of Florida golfer on course a ‘random act of violence’: police

A man in Florida has been accused of violently murdering a man at a Florida golf course earlier this week.

Junior Boucher, 36, has been charged with first-degree murder after he allegedly killed 65-year-old Brian Hiltebeitel on the first hole at Sandhill Crane Golf Club in Palm Beach Gardens on Monday afternoon.

Boucher is accused of “viciously” attacking Hiltebeitel with his own golf clubs and then drowning him in a pond, according to WPTV.

“Once in the water, Boucher jumped on top of Hiltebeitel and appeared to be choking him,” a witness told police, according to TMZ. “Boucher then got off of Hiltebeitel, who was no longer moving, and retrieved a golf club and struck him repeatedly in the head.”

A witness told police that Hiltebeitel yelled multiple times that Boucher was “trying to kill me!”

As Boucher chased Hiltebeitel, they arrived at the pond, where Boucher jumped on top of the victim and “appeared to be choking him,” police said.

Officers said that when they arrived, Boucher was naked and running away.

When he wouldn’t stop, police said, they used an “electronic control weapon” to subdue him.

Hiltebeitel had “deep lacerations to the back of his head” and was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.

The attack appears to have been random.

“At this time, it does not appear that Boucher had any legitimate purpose for being at the golf course,” Palm Beach Gardens Police Chief Dominick Pape told reporters on Tuesday. “This appears to be a random act of violence where Boucher used the victim’s golf clubs as weapons and viciously attacked the victim, ultimately killing him.”

Boucher was denied bond in court on Tuesday, and ordered to have no contact with witnesses or to hold weapons.