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U.S. Marshals Make Final Arrest In Birthday Shootings
5 Men Are Charged In Woman's, Son's Deaths
POSTED: 5:06 pm EST November 10, 2006
MIAMI -- On Friday, U.S. Marshals made the fifth and final arrest in connection with the shooting deaths of a mother and her 7-year-old son who were killed during the boy's birthday party.
Marshals arrested 26-year-old Jose Estache. He was taken into custody at 1943 S.W. 70th Way in North Lauderdale Friday afternoon.
On Thursday, police arrested Rayon Mathew Samuels, Sean Condell, Damian Lewis and Rashid Lee in connection with the Oct. 14 shooting. The men were connected to the shooting by weapons found during the search of a home at 1515 N.W. Third St. in Fort Lauderdale.
Carla Queeley, 34, and her son, Chaquone Watson, died from several gunshot wounds in a north Miami-Dade County neighborhood.
Shantaria Kearse, 7, and sisters Ann Maynard, 31, and Shantara Maynard, 24, were critically injured in the shooting but have since been released from the hospital. Shantaria suffered a serious brain injury when a bullet hit her in the head. Tony Chester, 4, lost an eye because of his injury. He is still hospitalized.
Relatives said that they suspected that the motive for the shooting was robbery.
"This was a brutal act, " said Curtis Maynard, who said he was Queeley's cousin. "They were trying to rob the house. Maybe they didn't expect that there was a birthday party."
Queeley, who was a nurse, was finishing up decorating the house for the birthday party when the armed men forced their way into the back of the home on Northeast Ninth Place, police said.
Police said that Queeley and her son were held hostage briefly while she was forced to call her cousins, who own the home, to tell them to return to the house. Shortly after other family members arrived, the men started shooting, police said.
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