MIAMI – Junior Roberts lived with a bullet in his brain for nearly a decade after a teenage boy shot him during an argument in Miami-Dade County.
Roberts, 57, suffered seizures regularly, and he was in Orlando County when he suffered yet another series of seizures, police said.
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Roberts was hospitalized for one last time on April 21 at the Orlando Regional Medical Center, records show.
Doctors couldn’t help him. He died on May 11.
Luis Dominguez was 16 years old when he shot Roberts in the head on Dec. 25, 2014, in West Little River, police said.
Roberts was treated at Jackson Memorial Hospital in 2014 and a surgeon removed a part of his skull to help reduce inflammation. He became one of the 10% who survive a gunshot wound to the head.
Dominguez was 20 when he pleaded guilty to premeditated attempted murder and a Miami-Dade County judge sentenced him to 15 years in prison and a 5-year probation.
Dominguez left the Franklin Correctional Institution in Carrabelle, along Florida’s Panhandle, and Miami-Dade corrections booked him on Wednesday at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center
Dominguez appeared in Miami-Dade court on Thursday. This time he was facing a charge of second-degree murder with a weapon, and corrections held him without bond.
The evidence in the Miami-Dade murder case now includes the “deformed projectile” that an Orange County medical examiner removed from Roberts’s parietal lobe, a region of the brain that processes sensory information and spatial cognition.