{"id":176687,"date":"2026-03-03T19:24:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T19:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/176687\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T19:24:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T19:24:15","slug":"man-accused-of-beating-roommate-to-death-in-pompano-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/176687\/","title":{"rendered":"Man accused of beating roommate to death in Pompano Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0March 3, 2026 at 2:02 PM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/HTAAKALB3FGOHDDH5E5TH5A3GE.jpg\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/>Shenard Jennings (Broward Sheriff&#8217;s Office) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">POMPANO BEACH, Fla.  \u2014 A 33-year-old man was arrested Tuesday after beating his roommate to death in Pompano Beach, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to the Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office, the suspect, Shenard Jennings, and the victim, Karim Shouman, 39, got into an argument overnight inside their home in the 2900 block of Northwest Second Street. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">BSO spokeswoman Miranda Grossman said the argument, which stemmed from an ongoing dispute, turned physical when Jennings punched the victim. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">She said he proceeded to beat the victim, eventually killing him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to Grossman, deputies and Pompano Beach Fire Rescue personnel responded to the home shortly before 1 a.m. after receiving a call about a deceased person inside the residence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">She said they then located Shouman\u2019s body in the kitchen. He was pronounced dead at the scene by PBFR.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Jennings was transported to BSO\u2019s Main Jail and faces one count of first-degree murder. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Further details about the argument that led up to the alleged beating have not yet been released. <\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Amanda Batchelor\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83776d46-011c-4018-ab.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Amanda Batchelor<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Amanda Batchelor is the Digital Executive Producer for Local10.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0March 3, 2026 at 2:02 PM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandShenard Jennings (Broward Sheriff&#8217;s Office) POMPANO BEACH, Fla. \u2014 A 33-year-old man&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":{"0":"post-176687","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-lauderdale","8":"tag-fort-lauderdale","9":"tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","10":"tag-fort-lauderdale-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}