Guatemalan family needs your help.

UPDATE: A GoFundMe account (note link below) has been created for the family of a young child that was killed by a hit and run driver in Lantana Cascade mobile home park located south of the City of Atlantis. A nearby landmark is a large convenience store at the corner of Congress Ave. and Lantana Rd. in Atlantis.

The child killed by a hit and run:

“His name was Yoni Ramirez who would be turning 2 in March [2019]. He was a sweet and loving kid, always smiling. We are a family of a low income with 3 other kids. The reason we started a gofundme because we want to bury our baby back in our home country of Guatemala.”


The mobile home park called Lantana Cascade is west of the Town of Lantana in unincorporated County, ergo suburban Lantana. This hit and run occurred near where Nicolas Cruz lived briefly in the vicinity of the City of Atlantis (see map below).

So maybe you are wondering what is the situation with mobile home parks in Lake Worth Beach? Find out at the end of this blog post.

The horrific hit and run in suburban Lantana was front page news in The Palm Beach Post but was incorrect both by the headline editor and the reporter too, “Family members identify toddler killed in Lantana hit-and-run”.

This incident did not happen ‘in Lantana’ or in a ‘Lantana mobile home community’. This area is called suburban Lantana and find out why below.


LANTANA — Dark-eyed, dark-haired Jonnhy Ramirez had two big brothers, one baby sister and a fondness for balls of all shapes and sizes.

Monday night, the 21-month-old wandered no more than three yards from his family’s side porch in a Lantana mobile home community [sic] as they celebrated the holidays.

Only a few feet of grass separate the side-by-side trailer home fronts along Bula Alex Cay Trail from the strip of black asphalt that serves as both road and on-street parking.

That’s where a car struck and killed the toddler just after 8:30 p.m., then kept on going.

He died at the scene.


The Lantana Cascade mobile home park where this deadly hit and run occurred is the very same mobile home park where Nicolas Cruz lived briefly. And as reported by former Post reporter Alexandra Seltzer that news was headlined, “Alleged Parkland shooter left suburban Lantana home over gun dispute”.

Worth noting in unincorporated Palm Beach County you can count on CBS12 (WPEC) to be wrong close to one hundred percent of the time. For example, about the tragic hit and run in the Lantana Cascade trailer park ‘the one to turn too’ reported PBSO was the lead on the scene. Lantana and Atlantis both have their own police departments. Hello.

However, WPTV (NBC5) did report the news accurately referencing Lantana Cascade as in the vicinity of Lantana.

And note once again the words “suburban Lantana” by the Post’s Alexandra Seltzer above. Many do not know where the City of Atlantis is but many do know generally where the Town of Lantana is so that is why this unincorporated area in PBC is called suburban Lantana.

Please Note: If you live in that area and you know anything about a crime you are urged to call Crime Stoppers at 800-458-8477. The law enforcement in unincorporated PBC is PBSO.

For other ways to contact Crime Stoppers use this link.

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Click on map to enlarge.

Lantana Cascade off Congress Ave. is not in this image; however, one can see where Lantana is located (shaded red). Atlantis (shaded yellow) is north of Lantana Cascade.

At the corner of Congress Ave. and Lantana Rd. is a large convenience store which is located in Atlantis. The County’s PBC Park Airport is across Congress Ave. to the east.

FYI: In Lake Worth Beach and suburban areas west mobile home parks are also major issues of concern for law enforcement, public policy and public safety officials.

For example, there was a homicide in the Orange Grove mobile home park last year. To see the list of all mobile home parks in Lake Worth Beach and where they are located click on this link.

Most if not all mobile home parks in Central PBC are privately owned; fire alarms are a major issue of concern and evacuations ahead of major storms as well. Efforts by PBSO and code enforcement in Lake Worth Beach is doing tremendous work improving the living conditions in mobile home parks within the City limits.

Plus there was news from last January about cats being shot and injured or killed with a pellet gun at the Palm Beach Mobile Home Park.

And most recently the Mar Mak Colony Park near the Village of Palm Springs became a huge story on March 29th; for the update from Olivia Hitchcock at the Post click on this link.