The following is via WSVN:
An arrest has been made in the case of a New York City rabbi who was murdered in North Miami Beach back in 2014.
According to Miami-Dade Police, 15-year-old Deandre Edwin Charles was arrested at around 6 a.m., Wednesday morning, after a 16-month long investigation.
Sources said the teen, who was 14 at the time of the crime, went on a robbery spree throughout Northeast Miami-Dade and North Miami Beach when he ran into Rabbi Yosef Raksin. Raksin was walking to Synagogue, on that Aug. 9, Saturday morning, not carrying any money. Observing jews are forbidden to carry money on the Sabbath.
Charles, who is accused of shooting Raksin to death got away empty handed.
7News was on scene Wednesday, as the teen was put into the back of a cop car in handcuffs. Charles was indicted by a grand jury, which means he will be tried as an adult. He is charged with First degree murder.
Raksin’s murder left his family and the South Florida Jewish community on edge. The rabbi’s funeral in Brooklyn was attended by hundreds.
The Miami-Dade State Attorney’s office never gave up on the case, and now, as his family celebrates Hanukkah, a Jewish festival recalling miracles, they have their own miracle. Closure.
In an interview with Raksin’s daughter back in July, she said, “It could happen to anyone, and no one wants to live in this unknown place and feel like they could do whatever they want, take lives and just walk out free.”
Homicide detectives are currently going through the subject’s house, in Northwest Miami-Dade.
A news conference has been scheduled with the Rabbi’s family at 2:30 p.m., Wednesday.
(Source: WSVN)
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6 Responses
What is the race of the suspect?
Will Obama make a statement on the need for tougher gun control after this case? How did a 14 year old choir boy get a gun? Oh right. The victim was an Orthodox Jew, so it doesn’t fit the M O.
I am sure that the thug looks like Obama’s son, “if he had one”.
Even though he is being tried as an adult, the state won’t be able to put him in “old sparky”
Supreme Court ruled that murderers who committed their crimes prior to age 18 can’t be executed.
Such a shame. I hope he rots!
reb moisheingalus stole my thunder but I just wonder what would’ve happened had the situation been reversed and rabbi raskin killed this low life chalariyah. ferguson would’ve come to north Miami.
If Obama had a son…
I’ve been to the walmart in N. Miami beach. it makes planet of the apes seem tame by comparison.