A 15-year-old boy by no means made it house after an evening of enjoying basketball devolved into crime, then a capturing on the sidewalk of a busy principal street in Miramar.
Practically two years later, two folks now face costs in reference to the March 2023 homicide of Joel Vilsaint.
De Sean Phang, 28, of Miramar, was arrested Tuesday by federal authorities in Colorado after a high-speed chase, based on the U.S. Marshals Service. Miramar Police had arrested Juliean Sellmon, 26, of Miami-Dade County, one month after the capturing.
Authorities issued an arrest warrant for Phang on Jan. 17 for second-degree homicide with a firearm, the U.S. Marshals Service District of Colorado stated in a information launch Wednesday. Miramar officers lately discovered that Phang might have fled to Colorado.
Phang was discovered driving a rental automotive Tuesday close to Colorado Springs. Officers pursued him till he stopped within the car parking zone of a retailer. He was arrested and was being held in a Colorado Springs jail, ready to be extradited to Broward County, the Marshals Service stated.
The Marshals Service and Miramar Police in a press release Thursday didn’t present additional details about Phang’s alleged involvement within the 2023 homicide of Vilsaint. Vilsaint will not be named within the affidavit for Sellmon’s arrest, however Miramar Police recognized him because the sufferer in a press release Thursday.
On March 21, 2023, Vilsaint was with a gaggle of children enjoying basketball at Ansin Sports activities Complicated till about 9 p.m., based on a possible trigger affidavit for Sellmon’s arrest. After enjoying, they walked by means of the adjoining El-Advert Residences At Miramar condominium advanced within the 2400 block of East Protect Means, and Vilsaint stated he wished to go “hitting,” slang for making an attempt to open unlocked automobiles and break into them.
One of many individuals who was with Vilsaint that night time informed police that the boy was capable of get right into a blue BMW that was parked within the advanced, based on the affidavit. It was Sellmon’s automotive.
Surveillance video within the space confirmed Vilsaint and one other particular person get into the BMW briefly, however they acquired out and ran to the entrance of the condominium advanced, the affidavit stated. Sellmon was not but there on the time.
However about 20 minutes later the youngsters returned, acquired again into the BMW and once more ran away. This time, Sellmon and his girlfriend had simply arrived minutes earlier on the advanced in his girlfriend’s automotive and parked within the lot down from the BMW, based on the affidavit.
His girlfriend informed police that Sellmon grabbed his gun from her automotive and stated his BMW was being “robbed into.” The couple drove round on the lookout for anybody “suspicious,” the affidavit stated, however they discovered nothing and returned to the parked BMW.
An unidentified man in a black Lexus SUV had additionally arrived there and met up with them. He isn’t named within the warrant for Sellmon’s arrest.
It was Sellmon’s girlfriend who not lengthy later noticed the group of boys standing on a sidewalk within the 1800 block of South Hiatus Highway whereas driving to a close-by Publix, based on the affidavit. She known as Sellmon to inform them the place they had been.
Each the BMW and the black Lexus had been seen on cameras driving to the entrance of the condominium advanced about 9:40 p.m. Two minutes later, Vilsaint was seen operating into bushes close to the sidewalk as a person in a white shirt, later recognized as Sellmon, chased after him, based on the affidavit. Because the group of children ran in several instructions within the space, two gunshots rang out.
Among the group made it house. Vilsaint wasn’t discovered for hours, till somebody known as 911 about an individual mendacity bloodied on the sidewalk, the affidavit stated.
Vilsaint’s sister reported him lacking on March 23, the affidavit stated, unaware he had been at Memorial Regional Hospital for twenty-four hours by then as officers initially couldn’t determine him. He was pronounced lifeless within the hospital on March 27.
Sellmon is dealing with one rely of second-degree homicide and has pleaded not responsible, court docket data present. He has been held within the Principal Jail since his arrest in April 2023.
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