Boca Raton Teen Lured Into Trusting Two Friends Who Stole His Guns and Shot Him in the Leg

This was not a break-in. The door was opened willingly.

On April 24, 2026, a young man in Boca Raton invited two people into his home after a late-night FaceTime call. He knew them. He let them in. He went to the kitchen to make them food.

What happened next has two teenagers facing life felony charges and a victim who survived a gunshot and a tire rolling over his body in the street outside his own home.

How a 1 a.m. FaceTime Call Became the Setup for an Armed Robbery

It started with a group FaceTime. Someone floated a sleepover. The victim agreed, but there was a condition: one invited guest said the other had to come too.

Around 1 a.m., 15-year-old Easton Meza and 16-year-old Victor Manuel Rivero III arrived in a dark-colored SUV. They walked inside and spent nearly an hour there.

At some point they ended up in the victim’s bedroom, where rifles were stored in the closet. Meza and another juvenile posed for photographs with those rifles.

The victim stepped into the kitchen to get them food.

That is when they ran.

He Chased Them Into the Street. Then It Turned Violent.

The victim heard sounds of people leaving fast. He ran outside and found Meza carrying two of his rifles, another person carrying a handgun, both heading toward the SUV.

Rivero was behind the wheel. Calvin Devon Waldon, 21, was in the front passenger seat. The victim grabbed onto the open door, trying to wrestle back a rifle. Waldon allegedly struck him in the face with a pistol. Then voices inside the SUV shouted “shoot him, shoot him, shoot him.”

Waldon fired. The victim ducked. The shot hit him in the inner thigh. He fell from the vehicle and the rear tire ran over him as the SUV fled.

Neighborhood surveillance footage captured the getaway. A gunshot is audible on the video. The stolen rifles were valued at approximately $3,500.

Calvin Waldon Was Arrested First. The Teens Took Until July.

Waldon was taken into custody in late April 2026. Meza and Rivero were detained shortly after but not formally booked until July 7, 2026, more than 11 weeks later. Both are held without bond.

Their charges mirror Waldon’s exactly: attempted first-degree murder with a firearm, a life felony, along with armed burglary of an occupied dwelling and grand theft.

Detectives charged both teens as principals, not accessories, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office. The victim positively identified all three from photographs.

Florida keeps producing cases where the person inside never expected the threat to come from someone familiar.

In Miami Gardens, a man already on four active probations broke into a woman’s home and walked out with $33,000 in cash, the kind of pattern investigators say is hard to interrupt once it starts.

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This Was Not a Stranger at the Door. That Is What Makes It Different.

Most people picture a home invasion as forced entry. A broken lock. A stranger.

This was a phone call and a familiar face.

According to Forbes, 1 in 4 home burglaries in the U.S. occurs when the residence is occupied. When a victim is present, the risk of violence rises sharply. This case went further: the victim was actively hosting.

The rifles were not stumbled upon. The photographs, the timeline, the getaway vehicle already waiting nearby: this was a planned gun theft that became attempted murder the moment the victim fought back.

He was cooking food for them. They were posing with his rifles. At the same time. In the same house.

Teen-involved residential crimes keep surfacing with this same pattern of calculated targeting.

Three teen girls in California were charged after they threw fireworks directly into a baby nursery during a personal dispute, nearly destroying the home weeks before the family’s son was born.

And in Cape Coral, a man was found hiding in a home’s pool bathroom with a loaded AR-15 and two handguns while the homeowners were away. The weapons told investigators exactly what he had been waiting for.

Key Takeaways

• Easton Meza, 15, and Victor Manuel Rivero III, 16, were formally arrested July 7, 2026, more than 11 weeks after the incident
• Both face attempted first-degree murder with a firearm, a life felony, along with armed burglary and grand theft
• The victim was shot in the inner thigh and run over by the fleeing SUV after being struck in the face with a pistol
• The attack began with a group FaceTime call at approximately 1 a.m. on April 24, 2026
• The teens spent nearly an hour inside before stealing two rifles and a handgun from the bedroom closet
• Calvin Devon Waldon, 21, was arrested separately and is accused of firing the shot
• The stolen rifles were valued at approximately $3,500
• All three suspects are being held without bond

The victim opened his door for someone he thought he knew, then went to the kitchen to make them food. Do you think this changes how people should approach who they let in, even someone familiar? Drop your take in the comments.

Wrapping Up

This started with a FaceTime call and a sleepover invitation. It ended with a man on the ground outside his own home, shot, with a tire rolling over him in the dark.

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Disclaimer: This article is for informational purposes only. All details are based on publicly available law enforcement reports and court filings at the time of publication. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.