New details have been released in the arrest of a man who allegedly killed a father in front of a Miami Gardens home last week, authorities said.
According to an arrest report, 32-year-old Sylvester Takeem Grice Jordan was the man who pulled the trigger in a domestic-related shooting partially captured on surveillance footage in the 3300 block of Northwest 177th Terrace on Dec. 18.
When officers arrived at the scene, they said they found Grice Jordan in the front yard holding a rifle. They told him to drop it and were able to make an arrest.
Officers found the victim, Yasmany Rodriguez Fernandez, lying just outside the door of the home on the front porch area. Police said he was “unresponsive and appeared to have been shot multiple times.”
Rodriguez Fernandez was flown to a hospital but did not survive.
A fatal argument
Miami Gardens police said that since April, Grice Jordan had been living at the home with the victim, the victim’s wife, and the victim’s daughter, with whom he shares an 8-month-old child. He has reportedly known the Rodriguez Fernandez’s daughter since 2006.
According to the victim’s wife, the family had been having problems with Grice Jordan and told him to leave on Dec. 15, and he left his dog behind.
32-year-old Sylvester Takeem Grice Jordan
On the day of the shooting, Rodriguez Fernandez and Grice Jordan got into an argument over the phone when the victim called the suspect to tell him that the dog had urinated and defecated inside the house and that Grice Jordan needed to pick it up, the arrest report states.
When Grice Jordan got to the house, an argument broke out between him and the victim outside the front door. The victim went inside and retrieved a firearm, his wife told police.
The victim’s wife also said she saw from inside the house how both men appeared to gesture to each other that they were armed. They “[ran] after each other for a short time,” not holding weapons, until Rodriguez Fernandez came back inside the house and put his firearm on a table.
Rodriguez Fernandez stepped out again, and that’s when his wife “heard a gunshot and heard the victim scream that he had been shot and to call 911.”
She, the victim’s daughter and the baby then closed the front door and ran to the bedroom. That’s when “she heard multiple gunshots,” called 911 and locked herself in the bathroom of the bedroom.
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While locked inside, she allegedly heard Grice Jordan punching in the code and attempting to get into the house, and the victim’s daughter went to go see who was trying to come in.
An arrest report states that the victim’s daughter saw Grice Jordan grabbing the gun Rodriguez Fernandez had left on the table.
Grice Jordan allegedly went outside, asked the victim’s daughter why her father had a firearm, and then “began pointing a rifle at the victim’s head while he was on the ground shot, demanding for his keys.”
Then, the victim’s daughter watched as Grice Jordan told him that he had five seconds, and started counting down from five to one. It is not clear from the arrest report if Grice Jordan fired at the end of the countdown.
Surveillance video and evidence at the scene
Police said CCTV footage from neighboring homes corroborated the witness’ story.
In surveillance video obtained by NBC6, at least a dozen gunshots can be heard along with someone saying, “Stop (expletive) playing with me.”
Detectives focused their investigation on the suspect’s Ford Mustang and a Mercedes parked in the swale. There were at least three bullet holes in the Mercedes.
Police said they found a firearm in plain view on top of the driver’s seat inside the Mustang, and that the gun’s slide was “locked open as if the magazine [was] empty.”
A detective also saw the rifle that Grice Jordan had been holding “laying on the grassy, front yard, area of the residence,” the arrest report describes. A second black gun was also found on the ground in the front yard of the home.
Police said they found a dozen 9 mm casings at the scene.
Grice Jordan was taken to Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center and booked on charges including second-degree murder and use of a firearm while committing a felony. He was also sought on an arrest warrant out of a different county.
The investigation is ongoing.
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