An execution-style double murder in 2013 concluded Wednesday with the two defendants taking plea deals instead of going to trial.
The murders happened in Miami Gardens, but because of the COVID-19 pandemic and a court ruling that one of the defendants was intellectually disabled, the case dragged on for years. It would have ended last week, but one of the now-admitted killers stormed out of court.
Defendant Reginald Jackson refused to accept the plea deal without his family being in court.
“We’ve been doing this for 13 years, justice delayed is justice denied,” Judge Ellen Sue Venzer said last Wednesday.
Jackson accused the judge of being racist and stormed out of the courtroom.
Jackson and codefendant Roderick Martin were charged with the first-degree murders of 69-year-old Anette Anderson and her grandson, 20-year-old Tyrone Walker.
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Annette Anderson and Tyrone Walker Jr.
“What we know is that Ms. Anderson and Mr. Walker were hog-tied, shot in the back of the head and left for dead,” Judge Venzer said today in court.
In Wednesday’s hearing, Jackson and Martin each admitted their guilt and accepted the plea bargains. They have already each served 13 years.
“This is the case that would not close, I called it cursed,” said Jimmy Della Fera, Jackson’s lawyer.
Jackson was sentenced to 40 years in prison, and Martin got 25 years. Neither one ever said why they did it. Judge Venzer asked them again, what was the motive to murder two people?
“Could you put some closure on this, gentlemen, please? For the families, certainly not for me,” she said.
Each of the confessed killers decided to say nothing.
“Hope you think about these families, these folks that you murdered in cold blood,” the judge said at the end of the hearing.
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