Sara Trost was 40 years old and a British agent in real estate. On Thursday, she was shooting in front of one of her properties.
Sara Trost is originally from Southend, Essex. On Thursday, she was in her Jeep parked in front of the Coral Springs home, which is 40 miles north of Miami.
Raymond Reese (51), was also arrested that day. According to reports, he was a tenant at the property located in the 5700 block Northwest 48th Court.
Although police have yet to provide details about the motive for the crime, neighbors said that Reese had been a disturbed tenant following his expulsion from the home worth $515,000
“There was a tenant who wasn’t happy and was expelled. He believed that the realtor who showed the home was its owner, so he was ambushed. Donna Smith from the local area said she saw her sitting in her vehicle.
Raymond Reese, 51, allegedly shot Trost in the driveway of a $515,000 home on Thursday. Reese is currently being held at West Palm Beach’s Main Detention Center on first-degree murder charges.
Trost lived with her three-year old daughter in Parkland 48 miles north-east of Miami as a married mom. She was an interior designer before she started her eight-year-old property development business.
At 12.30pm, paramedics raced onto the property’s driveway to save three bedrooms. The mother-of-1 was saved by paramedics on Thursday.
Officers arrived to find a car with one female passenger in the driver’s chair, suffering multiple gunshot wounds. According to Coral Springs police, she died from her injuries despite immediate medical care.
Reese was quickly arrested by police in Boca Raton that same day.
The police report stated that there are not additional suspects or a threat to community.
Investigators said Trost was shot multiple times while sitting in her Jeep, which was parked in the property’s driveway in the area of the 5700 block of Northwest 48th Court (pictured).
Trost, prior to hearing death, had spoken out about America’s gun culture on social media following the 2018 Parkland shooting, in which 17 people were killed and 17 other injured.
“Australia experienced one incident. One. They fixed it. UK had ONE incident. It was fixed. How? You have to take action. Use their brains. Trost posted on Facebook, “It wasn’t difficult for either country find a working and successful solution.”
“Here, in the US, we seem stop at ‘thoughts & prayers. It doesn’t seem right to me, she said.
A friend said, “Gotta Move.” It won’t change.
Trost said, “You are correct.”
Investigative work continues into the incident. Reese is not currently being tried.
According to arrest records Reese has been booked at the Main Detention Center, West Palm Beach as of Friday evening. Reese remains in custody without bond.