On the evening of Tuesday, November 25, 2025, Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to a flurry of 911 calls reporting gunfire near the 600 block of West Sample Road in Pompano Beach, Florida, by a McDonald’s restaurant and an adjacent Ampm convenience store. When deputies and Pompano Beach Fire Rescue arrived, they found a man later identified as Tyrone Holton, a 52-year-old male, suffering from at least one gunshot wound in or near the fast-food restaurant’s parking area.
He was rushed to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead a short time later. A second gunshot victim, whose name and condition have not been publicly released, was transported separately to another hospital by a private individual rather than by medics on scene.
Investigators quickly sealed off the area around the McDonald’s and the neighboring convenience store with crime-scene tape, treating the whole cluster of businesses as an active homicide scene. The McDonald’s, which typically operates 24 hours a day, closed early that night at around 8:30 p.m. while detectives and crime-scene technicians documented evidence, processed the parking lot, and canvassed for surveillance footage and witnesses; it reopened to the public the following morning once the most intensive phase of evidence collection had wrapped up.
The case is being handled by the Broward Sheriff’s Office Homicide and Crime Scene units, which have described the incident as a double shooting that left Holton dead and another man hospitalized. As of the latest public reporting, investigators have not released any description of a suspect or suspects, have not announced an arrest, and have not made any information public about a possible motive or any relationship between Holton and the other wounded victim. Authorities have instead issued a broad appeal for information, urging anyone who was in the area around 7:30 p.m. that night or who may have seen or recorded anything suspicious to contact Broward Crime Stoppers at 954-493-TIPS.
Beyond these investigative details, only limited personal information about Holton has been made public in connection with the shooting. Online memorial sites list him by name, confirm his age and that he was killed by gun violence in Pompano Beach on November 25, 2025, and show that friends, family, and community members have begun lighting virtual candles and leaving tributes in his memory. At this point, however, news outlets covering the homicide have not published further biographical details or any official characterizations of his background, and they continue to frame the case as an active investigation with no publicly identified suspect.
