POMPANO BEACH, Fla. – A man who was cleared in the shooting of his ex-fiancée remains behind bars to face trial on different charges involving the same victim.
Gayle Blount had already been charged with committing a crime in Broward County when he was arrested in Miami-Dade County.
He’s already faced and beat those Miami-Dade charges, but his new trial is now set for the alleged beating he’s accused of doing in Broward County.
In February 2021, at a Denny’s on Pines Boulevard, Pembroke Pines police say Blount was arguing with his girlfriend when he grabbed her by the shoulders, shoved her into one of the tables and pushed her again as the two kept arguing back and forth.
He was arrested for misdemeanor battery and later released on bond.
Just a couple months later in May of 2021, Miami Gardens police arrested Blount for shooting the same woman police say he shoved inside that Denny’s.
He was charged with attempted murder, prompting Broward County prosecutors to request his bond in their case be revoked.
The judge granted that request.
Earlier this month on Valentine’s Day, a Miami-Dade jury found Blount not guilty of attempted murder.
He’d admitted to firing his gun multiple times at his ex-fiancée, but that he fired out of fear.
The victim claimed he’d shown up at her apartment multiple times, uninvited, despite a restraining order.
Blount was not released because he still has to face the battery charge from the Denny’s incident.
His lawyers have asked for a bond reduction. The judge denied that request, and so he sits and waits inside the Broward County North Jail waiting for his trial.