Five suspects are in custody Monday night after a week of hunting following the Memorial Day shooting that injured nine – including a one-year-old child – in Hollywood Beach.
Lionel Jean-Charles Jr., 18, Ariel Cardahn Paul, 16, and Jordan Burton, 15, face multiple counts of attempted murder and carrying concealed weapons. Two 18-year-olds, Morgan Deslouches and Keshawn Paul Stewart, have been charged with firearms offences.
Take a look at the timeline of events that led Hollywood police, the FBI and other law enforcement agencies to arrest the five suspected shooters in seven days.
Tragic Memorial Day shooting
At around 6.45pm on May 29, police rushed to the scene after an altercation between two groups escalated into gunfire on the Hollywood Beach Broadwalk – prompting thousands of Memorial Day sunbathers to hysterically disperse and to take shelter.
City web cameras captured the ensuing chaos: people fleeing gunfire, a woman trying to cover a child with her body and others carrying babies and toddlers to safety .
First responders took the victims to Memorial Regional Hospital and Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital in Hollywood. The ages of the children range from 1 to 17; adult ages range from 25 to 65, authorities told reporters near the crime scene.
The names of the injured have not been released but family members of the one-year-old victim identified him as 16-month-old Amari. Two of those shot were part of one of the groups involved in the altercation.
Two suspects arrested
Two 18-year-old men were arrested hours after the shooting, a few blocks from the crime scene on the Hollywood Beach Broadwalk near Johnson Street. Investigators also recovered five firearms, two of which were stolen from Miami-Dade County and Texas, Hollywood police said in a news release the next day.
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Deslouches, a Hollywood resident, faces charges of grand theft of a firearm, carrying a concealed weapon and removing or altering the serial number of a firearm after police say finding a black Smith & Wesson in a bag slung over his left shoulder. Stewart of Dania Beach was arrested for carrying a concealed firearm after officers said they spotted a fully loaded 9mm semi-automatic handgun in a backpack he was carrying.
Stewart and Deslouches have since been released on bail of $15,000 and $20,000 respectively, according to court records. A judge ordered Deslouches not to possess firearms or ammunition as well as not to contact the victims or anyone else involved in the shooting. The same judge also told Steward not to return to the area of the shooting and to avoid contacting other co-defendants.
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On Tuesday, May 30, the day after the shooting, authorities announced that three more suspects were at large, releasing CCTV that showed them fleeing the scene.
Third arrest
A third suspect involved in the Hollywood Beach Memorial Day shooting was captured Saturday afternoon by Hollywood police and US Marshals, officials said.
Jordan Burton faces one count of attempted first degree murder, eight counts of attempted second degree murder and one count of carrying a concealed weapon.
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Investigators say Jordan Burton, Lionel Jean-Charles, Ariel Cardahn Paul and others approached the other group before words were exchanged and a fight ensued. Burton, according to police, appeared to draw a handgun and fire at the other group.
Fourth arrest
Ariel Cardahn Paul was taken into Hollywood police custody on Sunday night. He faces one count of attempted first degree murder, eight counts of attempted second degree murder and one count of carrying a concealed weapon.
According to investigators, Paul pulled out a silver handgun and, like Burton, “appeared to fire indiscriminately” at the opposing crew as well as into the crowd before the two groups fled in various directions.
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Two 9mm handguns were recovered from under the stairwell of a nearby apartment building where Jordan and Stewart were seen, investigators say. A black Smith & Wesson .380 handgun was found nearby in the bushes behind a tiki hut.
It is unclear whether minors Paul and Jordan Burton would be tried in court as adults or whether they would remain behind bars.
Fifth — And final — Stop
The latest fugitive suspect was found Monday afternoon by Hollywood police. He faces the same attempted murder and weapons charges as Burton and Paul.
Investigators say surveillance footage captured Lionel Jean-Charles Jr. as he fled from police heading north on North Ocean Drive, where he then turned east on Cleveland Street, removed his hoodie yellow and threw it away.
Jean-Charles Jr., police say, “without provocation, willfully and intentionally produced a handgun with intent to assassinate” one of the males in the other group while “simultaneously endangering the public and innocent bystanders”. He remained behind bars in the main Broward County Jail on Monday night, records show.
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It was not immediately known where Jean-Charles, Paul and Burton had been arrested.