Robert Byers, 36, has been charged with the Nov. 21 murder of Devon Hewitt on Phillips Avenue, the Mercer County Prosecutor's Office said in a release.
A Trenton man on the run after allegedly killing another man in the city last year was captured in Florida on Thursday, officials said today.
Robert Byers, 36, has been charged with the Nov. 21 murder of Devon Hewitt on Phillips Avenue, the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office said in a release. Byers also faces multiple weapons charges.
Hewitt, a 47-year-old construction worker, was playing cards and dominoes with his friends when he was shot. He left behind a son and a daughter.
Byers was arrested after an investigation by the Mercer County Homicide Task Force and a search by the U.S. Marshals NY/NJ Regional Fugitive Task Force, the office said. Members of the fugitive task force, including members of the county sheriff’s office, interviewed and re-interviewed local residents over the past four months until they found a successful lead, Deputy U.S. Marshal Michael Schroeder said.
In recent weeks, the task force came across a Florida address for one of Byers’ girlfriends and began to close in on the Miami Gardens residence, Schroeder said.
The Florida Regional branch of the marshals task force set up a perimeter around the house on Thursday and knocked on the front door, he said. Byers’ girlfriend answered the door and after a search, he was found in a room attached to the house and arrested without incident, Schroeder said.
Byers is being held at the Miami-Dade Police Department pending extradition, the prosecutor’s office said.
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