Miami police to announce arrest of “suspected serial killer”

Calling him a “suspected serial killer,” authorities say a 25-calendar year-previous Miami serious estate agent may possibly be liable for the killing of two homeless guys and the taking pictures of a third.

The suspect, Willy Suarez Maceo, of Kendall, was charged early Friday with attempted murder for the non-lethal taking pictures of a homeless gentleman in close proximity to downtown Miami.

Maceo made his very first look in Miami-Dade Circuit Courtroom on Friday afternoon, and was purchased held with out bond.

The taking pictures took place on Tuesday night in the vicinity of downtown Miami. Police say Maceo, in an unprovoked attacked, shot the homeless person, who was struck in the head and survived. He advised law enforcement he had no concept how he’d been injured.

About two hours later on, Miami’s law enforcement main mentioned, Maceo is believed to have pulled up in a black Dodge Charger and from the car shot and killed another homeless person as he slept on the sidewalk in Wynwood, sparking an exhaustive about-the-clock investigation. In that circumstance, Maceo has however to be charged with the killing of Jerome Antonio Price tag, 56, a capturing that was captured on surveillance movie.

“Homeless people today for no motive have been brutally specific,” Miami Interim Police Chief Manuel Morales claimed at a push conference on Thursday evening. “They felt the suffering and injustice suffered at the hands of a brutal unique.”

The motive for the attacks continue to be mysterious.

Morales mentioned sharp-eyed detectives immediately linked the two attacks. Maceo’s license plate was seen, providing detectives a essential lead.

In accordance to an arrest report launched on Friday, tactical theft detectives observed Maceo in his auto in Kendall on Wednesday. They identified his 9 mm Glock, the report said, and ballistics assessments shortly connected the weapon to the two shootings.

Bullet casings were also located “on the defendant’s man or woman,” the report mentioned. Information showed the gun was procured by Maceo in January 2018, police stated.

Maceo agreed to go to the Miami law enforcement department’s homicide bureau for questioning, but the interview was stopped soon after he asked “for authorized guidance,” according to the arrest report.

Throughout Friday’s courtroom visual appearance, Assistant General public Defender Kendal Rinko told the decide that there was not probable result in to maintain him jailed. Just mainly because Maceo owned the gun and the auto, it doesn’t mean he was the a single who carried out the crime, Rinko said.

“Mr. Maceo is in no way found carrying out the capturing in this circumstance, or remaining existing in the car throughout the taking pictures at situation in this situation,” Rinko explained.

Circuit Decide Alberto Milian, on the other hand, discovered there was sufficient evidence for the cost of premeditated attempted murder. He ordered Maceo to continue being guiding bars, citing the “peculiar pattern” of focusing on homeless people in what “appears to be execution style” assaults.

“I conclude the defendant is a risk to the community,” Milian stated.

Investigators believe that Maceo also may perhaps have been powering a 3rd assault — the murder of a homeless man on Oct. 16 at 27 SE 1 St. Surveillance footage of the suspected killer, shared previously with the general public, shows a gentleman who seems to be particularly like Maceo. Killed in that murder was Manuel Perez, 59.

Morales appealed to the public — and fellow law enforcement departments — to come ahead with details on more possible victims.

“There may perhaps be other victims who experienced at the fingers of this ruthless felony,” Morales mentioned.

Miami law enforcement in the beginning arrested Maceo Thursday about 1:30 a.m. on the 500 block of Northwest Sixth Avenue just after a sergeant advised him “to go away the property and refused to,” according to an arrest report.

Information demonstrate Maceo, of Kendall, is a licensed real estate broker Century 21 lists him as functioning in Miami, Kendall, South Miami and Palmetto Bay.

According to his Fb webpage, Maceo is from Cuba and attended Miami Sunset Senior Large School. His Facebook web page is a Miami potpourri of luxury autos, bikini versions and pictures of Maceo at a cryptocurrency conference in June.

His Instagram web site attributes households for sale throughout South Florida, and him posing in entrance of a Porsche at the Cryptocurrency Fintech Convention in 2021 and in real estate films.

In accordance to state documents, Maceo had no prior arrests in Florida before this week. He also had a permit to carry a hid weapon.

This tale was initially printed December 23, 2021 3:25 PM.