New details released in Naranja Park shooting that left 18-year-old dead

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – New details released successful an apprehension warrant obtained by Local 10 News connected Monday uncover what led up to the deadly shooting of an 18-year-old astatine Naranja Park, wherever authorities accidental a 17-year-old fishy present faces a second-degree execution complaint arsenic an adult.

Authorities said Samuel Boyd, 17, was arrested past period successful Charlotte, North Carolina earlier being extradited to Miami-Dade County, and is present facing a complaint of second-degree murder.

The deadly shooting happened connected April 8 astatine Naranja Park, located astatine 14150 SW 264 St.

According to the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office, the unfortunate was playing sports erstwhile an statement escalated. Deputies said Boyd allegedly pulled retired a weapon and changeable the victim, identified arsenic Flavio Alejandro Morales, earlier leaving the scene.

The warrant states that Morales and his friends got into a verbal quality with a abstracted radical that included Boyd.

As Morales and his radical began to locomotion away, deputies said Boyd and different unidentified idiosyncratic followed them and reignited the argument.

Witnesses told investigators that 1 of the suspects grabbed a concatenation from astir Morales’ neck, according to the report.

Morales responded by punching Boyd, who past pulled retired a weapon and changeable him aggregate times, the study stated.

Deputies said Morales was rushed to Jackson South Medical Center, wherever helium was pronounced dead. An autopsy aboriginal confirmed helium died of gunshot wounds, and his decease was ruled a homicide, according to investigators.

Deputies said surveillance video captured Boyd fleeing the country aft the shooting occurred.

Two witnesses aboriginal identified Boyd arsenic the shooter — 1 of them told investigators they had known Boyd for much than a twelvemonth and recognized him successful surveillance footage, according to investigators.

Authorities said based connected the eyewitness accounts, surveillance footage, and different evidence, an apprehension warrant was issued for Boyd connected 1 number of second-degree execution with a weapon.

As of Monday, helium is being held astatine the Metrowest Detention Center, wherever his enslaved is listed arsenic “to beryllium set.”

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