Two teens charged as new details emerge about deadly Coral Gables armed robbery
Miami-Dade police released the names of two suspects involved in an armed robbery turned homicide Friday afternoon.
Both are teens and both are now charged with first degree murder in the shooting death of a 67-year-old man who, police say, did not struggle with them as they tried to rob him.
Charged with first degree murder and armed robbery with a firearm or deadly weapon:
▪ Jermaine Lamount Walker, 17.
▪ Gary Ragin, 18.
The victim was Jorge Romero-Gil, 67, who was shot to death outside the condo building Ten Aragon.
According to the Miami-Dade Police Department, Coral Gables found Romero-Gil dead of gunshot wounds outside the loading dock of the condo on Aragon Avenue.
Police say Walker and Ragin got out of their car around 10 a.m. Friday and pointed a gun at Romero-Gil and demanded his belongings.
“Despite the victim complying with their demands, one of the subjects shot the victim,” Det. Angel Rodriguez’s report said.
After shooting Romero-Gil, the pair grabbed belongings from him and took off in a Dodge sedan.
A Gables K9 officer saw the Dodge sedan take off and tried to pull them over but Walker and Ragin sped off across U.S. 1 into Coconut Grove where they crashed the Dodge at Tigertail Avenue and Darwin Street. Police say it was a single-vehicle crash.
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The pair bailed from the Dodge on Bird Avenue in Coconut Grove near Center Street, where Miami and Miami-Dade police had set up a perimeter in the Bird Avenue area of northwest Coconut Grove, down the street from Flanigan’s.
Officers from the three departments caught Walker and Ragin after they had split up and run through people’s yards in a northwest section of Coconut Grove, sending 911 switchboards aglow from calls by neighbors who saw the men running through their yards. The sound and sight of helicopters overhead filled the streets near Flanigan’s as workers prepped Friday’s lunch.
Once captured, detectives found the firearm and Romero-Gil’s property.
“After speaking with detectives, both subjects confessed to their involvement. They were arrested and charged accordingly,” Rodriguez’s report said.
This story was originally published July 23, 2022 at 9:19 AM.
