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“HE WASN’T CRAZY WHEN HE KILLED MY SON!” DAD’S
BREAKDOWN WILL MAKE U CRY
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(BlackMediaScoop) This story breaks my
heart.
Lukace Kendle (white) was working as
an armed guard at a Miami nightclub (Club Lexx – or Rol-Lexx) back in 2012 when
he fatally shot Kijuan Byrd (black), who was unarmed. Lukace Kendle is a 26,
dishonorably discharged rat bastard who if he hadn’t lied and omitted
information on his licence application would’ve never been employed as an Armed
Security Officer. Kendle had a criminal history, but was licensed as a guard in
Florida anyway.
Lukace shot two unarmed men. Michael
Smathers is paralyzed. Kijuan Byrd is deceased after being shot 8 times by
Kendle.
Kendle, who is white, told police that
one of the men shouted, “I’m gonna kill you, nigga,”
while the driver, Michael Smathers, looked like he “might have been pulling
something upwards.” He also said both men appeared to be making motions with
their hands.
In an interview, Smathers said neither
he nor his friend Kijuan Byrd said anything to Kendle. Smathers said he opened
his car door and the guard told him to put his hands up. He said he did what he
was told.
Kendle pulled his Glock out of his
holster and began shooting.
Kendle fired at least three times into
the windshield and continued along the driver’s side, striking Smathers four
times. Then he directed his attention to Byrd in the passenger seat. Byrd, 29
years old and a father of two, fell from the car onto the asphalt, grasping for
cover underneath the pickup.
He kept shooting. In total, Kendle
shot Byrd (seen above) 8 times – at least 4 times in the back – as he crawled
toward safety underneath the truck, according to the autopsy report. Kendle
told police he thought both men were armed.
On June 8, 2012, seven days after the
shooting, police arrested Kendle on murder and attempted murder charges.
In December of that year, while in
jail, Kendle was diagnosed with impulse control disorder and antisocial
personality disorder. A year later, after he demanded to represent himself in
court, another court-ordered psychiatrist concluded there was a “substantial
likelihood” that he had a mental illness. She diagnosed him with a delusional
disorder.
That violent night in Miami also
reveals how regulators in Florida and across the country have approved guard
licenses without conducting mental health evaluations or checking for evidence
of substance abuse. Only four states – Delaware, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma and New
Mexico – require armed-guard applicants to undergo a mental health evaluation,
which is standard for law enforcement officers before being stationed on the
job.
In this video, Donald Byrd, Kijuan’s
father, confronts Kendle at a court hearing.
A father confronts his son's killerMiami-Dade County Criminal Court, April 4, 2014.Hearing in the murder trial of Lukace Kendle for the shooting of Kijuan Byrd. Byrd's father, Donald, is escorted out of the courtroom after an outburst. Excerpt from an investigation by The Center for Investigative Reporting and CNN. Credits: CIR reporter Shoshana Walter, CNN senior investigative producer Scott Zamost, footage courtesy of CNN For more on this story, visit www.cironline.org and cnn.com. Correction: A previous version of this video had the incorrect date for this hearing. It occurred April 4, 2014.VIDEO SOURCE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJtIjupffDk
Watch his emotional breakdown in
court…
I can’t watch this without crying.
What do you think?
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KIJUAN LAMAR O'NEAL BYRD Obituary
(Archived)
Published in the Miami Herald on June 7, 2012
First 25 of 203 words: BYRD, KIJUAN LAMAR O'NEAL, 29, of Miami, passed away
on June 1, 2012. Kijuan was born on September 9, 1982 in Miami, Florida and
graduated...
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