Before Jasmine Walton was shot dead early Saturday morning, the 17-year-old was threatened by another teenage girl, not far from a restaurant Walton and her cousins attended that night, a cousin said on Sunday.

“Why [did] you come over here? You’re all messed up,” the person told Walton and her group, recalled Amber Walton, 16.

A short time later, as Jasmine Walton and her cousins walked along the 1600 block of Johnson Street, someone ran up to them and started shooting, Amber Walton said.

The girls ran in different directions, she said. They met up a little later, only to discover that Jasmine Walton was unaccounted for. They returned to the scene of the shooting to learn that she was dead.

“I couldn’t believe it,” Amber Walton said.

Lake Worth police were still looking for motives in the 2:11 a.m. shooting of Jasmine Walton of Lake Worth as they interviewed witnesses, acquaintances and neighbors on Sunday. Police say they are checking all leads, including the account given by her cousin.

Detectives returned to the fatal shooting scene on Sunday and examined the possibility that a stray bullet may have lodged in a wall of a nearby house where a family lived.

Officers were investigating another shooting in the 1200 block of South Dixie Highway, in which Esnel Isnadin, 17, of Lake Worth was shot in the knee, when they heard the multiple gunshots coming from Johnson Street.

Police suspect the two shootings are related, but they haven’t discussed how they were connected, other than to say they occurred not far from each other.

Fresnel Isnadin, Esnel’s father, said his son was at a party and a fight broke out. The youth ran and was hit in the left knee.

The father brought his son to the United States in 2001 from St. Marc on the northern side of Haiti. It didn’t take long for him to start hanging out with the wrong crowd and getting in trouble in school, the father said. He eventually dropped out.

“He was always in trouble. He didn’t want to learn,” said Fresnel Isnadin.

The father said he kicked his son out of the house because he wasn’t obedient The teen went to live with a cousin and then with friends.

“Maybe he will use this shooting as an example to turn around his life,” the father said.

The youth underwent surgery Sunday, Fresnel Isnadin said. The status of his condition was not available.

Jasmine Walton’s family was just beginning Sunday to come to terms with her sudden death, family members said. The slain teenager had been a student at Boynton Beach High School interested in pursing a career in the medical field. She loved hairstyling and singing with family members.

At the spot where she collapsed on the sidewalk, flowers, five candles, a small heart pillow and a wooden cross were placed, across from a weed-filled field littered with empty beers cans. Family members talked of conducting a vigil there tonight.

Staff writer Thomas Monnay contributed to this story.

Leon Fooksman can be reached at or 561-243-6647.