MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. – A man known by the online handle “Say Less Peewee” is facing a dozen felony charges after authorities accused him of shooting up a Miami Gardens home with five people inside in February, injuring a man.
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Police said Frederick Wayne Cade, 28, would later claim an apparent lack of geographic knowledge about Miami-Dade County during an interview with detectives. That’s in spite of the fact that he was born in Florida and lives in Homestead, according to an arrest report.
He’s been behind bars since March on a grab bag of charges connected to multiple unrelated cases, including six more counts of attempted murder. In that case, police said he shot up a home in Miami six days before shooting up the Miami Gardens home. He was formally arrested in the Miami Gardens case on Wednesday, while still incarcerated.
According to Miami Gardens police, a few weeks before the Feb. 11 shooting, Cade had gone to the home in the 1900 block of Northwest 153rd Street and made threats; his then-girlfriend was having landlord-tenant issues with the owner.
“Pictures and video show (Cade) with his hands in a school bag, making (gestures), that he had a deadly weapon and prepared to use it during a disturbance he and (his girlfriend) initiated,” detectives wrote.
Police said surveillance video showed Cade firing at the front door of the home as he wore a red jogging outfit and a black mask. He shot one of the people inside in the thigh, police said.
The report states that Cade was seen on his “Say Less Peewee” page brandishing the gun used in the shooting. According to police, he’s a convicted felon and shouldn’t have had it in the first place.
Cade’s ex-girlfriend would later tell detectives that she broke up with him after he “threatened to kill her numerous times,” the report states. Police said at one point he also threatened to kill her mother, her daughter and “everyone she loves.”
Authorities said she’s even in a group chat with several of Cade’s ex-girlfriends, where they exchange information about “violent experiences” with him. Police said she had received a text from him after the shooting to “tell them to pick the shells up,” which she had initially interpreted as a joke.
Police said Cade’s ex recognized him, his jogging outfit and a pair of distinctive red Puma shoes in the surveillance video.
Cade, in an interview with detectives after he was taken into custody on “unrelated cases,” denied any involvement in the shooting and “also stated that he did not know where Miami Gardens, Florida was and didn’t remember ever being there.”
Police said Cade also claimed to have never seen or held a gun before and “said on many occasions during the interview that he was doing a lot of drugs during the time and date of the shooting and crime.”
As of Thursday, Cade was being held in the Pre-Trial Detention Center without bond on one count of attempted murder, six counts of shooting or throwing a deadly missile, four counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and a count of felon in possession of a firearm.
Accused of similar shooting in Miami
According to another arrest report, Cade’s six preexisting attempted murder charges stem from a Feb. 5 shooting in Miami’s Liberty City neighborhood.
The case also involves an ex-girlfriend, according to Miami police.
The report states that Cade, who had been making threats to kill his ex from his “Say Less Peewee” page, shot up a house in the 1000 block of Northwest 51st Street.
“Now your brothers know I ain’t playing,” police said he wrote on Facebook after the shooting.
Located in Homestead and interviewed at the Florida City Police Department, he denied knowing anything about it, they said.