MIAMI – A detective reported a killer was wearing the same clothes he wore during a murder in Miami and had the victim’s stolen wallet with identifications when he was arrested and jailed just hours later, but no one noticed until years later, records show.
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According to the Miami Police Department, a killer shot None “Jalo” Jalaladeen in the head on Aug. 27, 2022, dropped his body near a dumpster, and covered the body with trash at the community where he had lived and worked in Overtown.
According to an Oct. 8 arrest warrant, Ring-camera surveillance video showed the murder suspect from about 1:30 to 4:30 a.m., in the area where police officers found Jalaladeen, 58, dead across from Paul Laurence Dunbar Elementary School.
According to the arrest warrant, Davin Pierre, the murder suspect, was arrested at 12:30 p.m., that same day, for a retail theft at the Walmart Super Center, in Gladeview. Records show Bob Saintilien and Cheick Kaba, then Miami-Dade police officers, responded.
According to the warrant, Pierre told Saintilien that “he went to Walmart to get clean clothes” and also “spontaneously” told him that “he was afraid because he found someone else’s wallet” and said “he didn’t know who” it belonged to.
According to the warrant, body-worn camera video shows Sanintilien searched Pierre -- found the black wallet in his pocket with the driver’s license, security office license, and credit and debit cards belonging to Jalaladeen -- took Pierre to jail for the retail theft and “turned in” the wallet with its contents.
“According to Miami-Dade Department of Corrections Property Release reports, the subject was given back all the items he arrived with including the victim’s identification card and credit/debit cards he arrived with,” Miami Detective Jayson Washington wrote, according to the arrest warrant.
Washington also found that correctional records showed Pierre was wearing “a blue collared shirt and black or dark colored pants similar” to what the suspect captured on the Ring surveillance video was wearing at the scene of the murder.
Miami police officers issued an “information needed” flyer on Aug. 29, 2022. Since neither the police officer nor corrections seized the stolen wallet and its contents, Washington reported Jalaladeen’s stolen Bank of America debit card was being used on Sept. 2, 2022, in Broward and Miami-Dade counties.
According to Miami-Dade County court records, detectives also arrested Pierre for burglaries in Miami Springs on Sept. 16, 2022, and in Hialeah on Sept. 21, 2022. He was convicted and placed on probation while Jalaladeen’s murder remained unsolved.
Meanwhile, the medical examiner’s office reported Jalaladeen suffered a gunshot to the face and a human bite that left a mark on the abdomen. Police officers reported there were also blood stains on the floor and wall outside of Jalaladeen’s apartment and brain matter and hair on the golf cart that he had used for work.
According to the warrant, the medical examiner’s office collected the bite marks from Jalaladeen’s abdomen and DNA evidence from his nails. Washington reported the county lab; state and national databases; and an “aligning” of Pierre’s dental cast helped to solve the case last year, according to the arrest warrant.
According to the arrest report, Pierre, who was born in Haiti, had been living in a second-floor apartment near Miami Gardens Drive and Northwest 20 Avenue, in Miami Gardens.
Miami-Dade prosecutors filed the case against Pierre for second-degree murder with a weapon and possession of a firearm by the convicted felon on Oct. 8.
Miami police officers had arrested Pierre for criminal mischief on June 27 and that case was pending when deputies arrested him on the Miami-Dade warrant for murder at about 2:30 a.m., on Feb. 14, in Palm Beach County.
Miami-Dade County inmate records show corrections booked Pierre on Monday at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center and he had both an arrest warrant for murder and a bench warrant for criminal mischief. He was held without bond.
Court records show Pierre’s arraignment is set for 9 a.m., March 7 and Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Jason Block is presiding over the murder case.
Read the arrest warrant