Wow. Glad they got who they believe is at least a suspect, even if they're not fully certain yet he's the only one.
Very strange and very senseless. And some of the stuff that had just come out before the arrest have me even more puzzled now given the arrest.
He praised Sunrise police for arresting Resiles and the Broward County Crime Lab for processing evidence from the crime scene, adding that detectives had not yet submitted all of the evidence for testing.
"The fact that we have this individual in custody does not end our investigation," Engle said.
Detectives will also review service companies and vendors in the community. Engle called Halliburton Su's death unusual for the town but would not call it a random attack, "because it's not clear if there was any sort of personal connection. I don't want to discount anybody. We're continuing to look at everything."
Given his age, and the son being 20 also (and the daughter 24) I wonder if it'll end up that he knew one of them or even just of one of them b/c of mutual associations or something and that perhaps he knew of the wealth or something and decided to target their family?
And if he thought the house would be empty, apart from her schedule, some degree of knowledge of them could mean perhaps he thought they were still out of the country and the house was vacant at the time (meaning not just vacant during the day b/c of someone being out) Or maybe he just has really bad "luck" and missed having the house very vacant while they were gone...
Just interesting they'd not even been back in the country for 24 hours when it happened!
It just seems so bizarre to have been that cruel - and senseless like many of you said if they are entirely unknown to one another - just because he unexpectedly found her home if it was truly solely a robbery attempt initially?
Curious to see where it goes.
Also interesting is not just a record, but a record since he was 14! But given they were more robbery related, it's a little surprising he'd jump all the way to murder if he broke in and found the home occupied.
Resiles has a record of arrests by police agencies in three counties that date from when he was 14. Nine of those arrests included burglary or theft charges, state records show.
He went to the effort to rent the Mercedes, presumably to stand out less, but he wore a construction vest thing prior?! :waitasec:
The vest would make him stand out enough as it was, but it'd be even more odd to see a guy in a construction vest going in and out of a Mercedes... Strange.
In January, Boca Raton police said Resiles drove a rented Mercedes-Benz and wore a construction vest when he was seen at a home where there had been a break-in. He was arrested, and police said they found stolen items from the house in the luxury car
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