Second suspect arrested after fatal Pembroke Pines restaurant shooting, cops say
The suspected second gunman in a Pembroke Pines restaurant shooting that left one dead and one injured nearly two months ago is behind bars, according to police.
Officers arrested Richaun Erick McKnight, 21, on Tuesday, Dec. 2, in Fort Lauderdale in connection to the murder that took over the Rickey’s Sport Bar & Grill parking lot — located at 8389 Pines Blvd — in the pre-dawn hours of Oct. 19, the Pembroke Pines Police Department said in a Dec. 2 statement.
McKnight, who PPPD says hails from Miami, was taken in with the help of the FBI and the Miami Police Department.
Jail records show he’s being held in the Broward Main Jail with no bond as of Dec. 3 and faces a second-degree charge of murder with a firearm.
His alleged accomplice, 27-year-old Clayton Hicks of Miami, was arrested the evening of the shooting by Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office and the FBI.
Hours before Hicks was arrested, Pembroke Pines police responded to gunfire at the restaurant and found two men — Reginald Capre and Marcus Jewell — with multiple gunshot wounds, the agency told the Pembroke Pines News on Dec. 3. They were rushed to Memorial Regional Hospital , where Capre died from his injuries.
Surveillance footage of the shooting revealed McKnight argued with the men moments before shots were fired in the parking lot, according to court records released in October. The video then shows Hicks emerge, point a gun at the two victims, hop in the driver’s seat of a getaway car and speed off with McKnight in the backseat.
The 27-year-old is also sitting in Broward Main Jail with a $500,000 bond as of Dec. 3 and faces two second-degree charges: murder with a firearm and attempted murder with a firearm.
The Oct. 19 shooting marks the second time Rickey’s Sports Bar & Grill’s parking lot had bullets fly this year. An April 12 shooting outside the restaurant left one man dead, with investigators saying it did “not appear to be a random act of violence.”
