FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A Delray Beach man charged with second-degree murder stemming from an allegation of road rage in Fort Lauderdale in a May 2019 shooting had the charge dismissed because of Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law.
Harrison Dacosta, who was 29 at the time of the incident, shot and killed motorcyclist Cerrone Alonso, 40, of Pembroke Pines about 9 p.m. near the intersection of Powerline Road and West Cypress Creek Road.
Judge Daniel A. Casey ruled Friday that Alonso, the motorcyclist, was the aggressor in the situation and Dacosta, whose girlfriend was in the front passenger seat of Dacosta’s Honda Civic, was defending himself and his girlfriend when he pulled his gun out of the glove compartment and shot Alonso, who was banging on the car and had his hand on the door handle when the passenger door opened.
