A man arrested on an attempted murder charge in connection with the shooting of a man in Miami earlier this year is now facing charges in a $50,000 jewelry robbery in Hialeah, authorities said.<\/p>\n
Zion K. Smith, 35, was arrested earlier this month on a second-degree attempted murder charge and is now facing an armed robbery charge, Miami-Dade jail records showed.<\/p>\n
The shooting happened back on Jan. 26 in the area of Northwest 18th Avenue and Northwest 52nd Street and left 53-year-old Andre Russel hospitalized, an arrest warrant said.<\/p>\n
Witnesses said a man in a white Hyundai with a temporary tag got out and began shooting at Russel, who was standing in front of his home.<\/p>\n
Russel ran but the gunman chased after him and kept shooting.<\/p>\n
Detectives went to the hospital and spoke with Russel, who said he didn’t know why someone would shoot at him, the warrant said.<\/p>\n
Surveillance video had captured the Hyundai driving throughout the day and investigators were able to determine Smith was the driver, the warrant said.<\/p>\n
The alleged shooter and the man who authorities said rented the Hyundai, identified in the warrant as 36-year-old Kenneth Knott, was arrested last month on an attempted second-degree murder charge, jail records showed.<\/p>\n
The armed robbery happened around 4:30 a.m. on April 28 in the 11200 block of West 43rd Avenue in Hialeah.<\/p>\n
According to an arrest report, the victim had arrived at his place of work when an Audi SUV parked next to him and a gunman got out and pointed a gun at him.<\/p>\n
The gunman began removing two necklaces from the victim’s neck as he was helped by a second gunman and a third suspect got into the driver’s seat of the SUV, the report said.<\/p>\n
The suspects fled with two necklaces including one with a Saint Lazaro medallion that the victim said were valued at $50,000, the report said.<\/p>\n
Detectives were able to identify the Audi SUV as a rental and found surveillance footage of Smith sitting in the front passenger seat wearing a thick gold necklace with a large gold medallion that strongly resembled the victim’s necklace about two hours after the robbery, the warrant said.<\/p>\n
After Smith was taken into custody, investigators searched his phone and found photos and videos showing Smith selling the necklace with medallion at a pawn shop, the warrant said.<\/p>\n
Detectives were also able to get footage from the pawn shop of the transaction, and the shop’s owner said Smith was paid $30,000 for two gold necklaces, the report said.<\/p>\n
In addition, investigators were able to place Smith’s cellphone at the scene of the robbery and at the scene of the January shooting, the report and warrant said.<\/p>\n
Smith was being held without bond Tuesday, jail records showed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man arrested on an attempted murder charge in connection with the shooting of a man in Miami…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226,373],"class_list":["post-276994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news","tag-miami-dade-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}