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Robert Deupree Avery Coltrain was indicted in Miami-Dade County in the death of Brian Trotter, who went missing earlier this month.
US highway patrollers stopped to help a man who had suffered a traffic accident on the Palmetto Expressway near Miami Lakes in the US state of Virginia. A foul odor emanated from the boot. Inside was the body of a hip-hop artist who disappeared more than a week ago.
On Monday afternoon (local time), Miami-Dade police detectives arrested the man they believe shot and killed 25-year-old Brian Trotter, who disappeared on October 17. Robert Deupree Avery Coltrain, 25, has been charged with second degree murder and illegal transportation. of human remains.
Coltrain was booked into a Miami-Dade jail Monday afternoon.
According to missing persons reports posted on social media, Trotter went missing after leaving with someone in a silver Acura in Triangle, a city about 30 miles from Washington, DC. For days, friends posted reports of missing persons asking for help finding Trotter, whose hip-hop name was “Kent Won’t Stop.”
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Then on Sunday afternoon, the Florida Highway Patrol was dispatched to an accident at the Palmetto near NW 154th Street. The car was a silver Acura and was heading north when it was crashed on the rain-soaked highway.
The Acura was towed to the Hialeah Westland Mall parking lot, where officers found the body. An initial autopsy revealed that Trotter had been shot and killed.
At police headquarters, Coltrain declined to speak to Miami-Dade homicide detectives, who took over the investigation, according to multiple law enforcement sources. But Coltrain was allowed to call Trotter’s sister, and as detectives listened, she apologized and said the death occurred in Virginia, sources said.
Because the body was found in Miami-Dade County, the case can still be prosecuted in Florida under state law.
Inside the car, investigators discovered the .45-caliber Glock pistol believed to have been used to kill the man. Detectives are still trying to determine the motive for the man’s murder.
– Miami Herald
