One of the candidates for Seat 3 on the city council has a morbid past: he’s a convicted killer.

Deputies said they had responded to over 270 calls at 1431 Peachtree Street — also known as “The Compound” — over the past six years. On Tuesday morning, S.W.A.T. teams executed a search warrant on the property.

Fire crews in Palm Bay battled a 40-acre brush fire in the city’s “Compound” area on Saturday, with Palm Bay Fire Rescue later confirming the fire was accidental and had been caused by an explosion during testing by rocket enthusiasts.

On Thursday night, Palm Bay city leaders met to discuss possible ways to redevelop an area known by residents as the “Compound.”

In the next two weeks, a young man will learn if he could spend the rest of his life in prison for the murders of two teenagers on Christmas 2022.

Nearly a year after two teenagers were found dead in the Palm Bay area known as “The Compound,” police say they have arrested a man in connection with their deaths.

Palm Bay police on Saturday evening located a dead person in the area of Absher Way and Sapodilla Drive, according to a news release.

Three weeks after authorities captured Robert Lanning in Alabama, the 28-year-old murder suspect is now in custody of the Brevard County jail just like his girlfriend, 41-year-old Rene Lemos.

New details from a murder case in Palm Bay reveal the victim's heart monitor led police to the body.

A man and a woman have been arrested — in Alabama and Georgia, respectively — after a 30-year-old was found shot to death inside an undeveloped subdivision in Palm By known locally as "The Compound," according to police.

Police on Sunday said they are investigating after a body was discovered at “The Compound,” a 12-square-mile plot of undeveloped neighborhood in Palm B

The man accused of killing a woman, dismembering and burning her body, and burying it in Palm Bay’s Compound told investigators that he was forced to kill the woman after she tried to take his gun, according to documents released in the case earlier this month.

After two hours of pitching development ideas for the future of the undeveloped Compound, Palm Bay said the city will look into the suggestions from its public workshop Thursday night before bringing those ideas back to the council for another debate.

City leaders plan to discuss what’s next for the troubled area.

The Brevard Sheriff’s Office announced the remains of single mother Nancy Howery were discovered last week in the city’s undeveloped neighborhood called the Compound.

A woman’s burned and dismembered body was discovered less than three months after police in Palm Bay said two teenage boys were found shot and killed.

A man faces charges after deputies said he shot, dismembered and burned a woman before her remains were found in "The Compound" near Palm Bay, according to the Brevard County Sheriff's Office.

Councilman Kenny Johnson said Palm Bay will host its first workshop next month focusing on stopping crime and other tragedies within 12 square miles of the undeveloped neighborhood called The Compound.

A 35-year-old man from Buffalo, N.Y., was killed in a paragliding crash Friday afternoon within The Compound area of Palm Bay, police said Saturday.