Post by Admin on Dec 2, 2021 21:15:40 GMT
14-Year-Old Ryan Rogers' Death Was Deliberate: Police
What Happened to Ryan Rogers? The 14-year-old boy was found dead after going for a bike ride, police say. His body was found off the side of a highway about three minutes from his Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, home. Police are calling his death “deliberate” and now they are on the hunt for the killer. A GoFundMe has been set up to help pay funeral expenses. An $8,000 reward is being offered for anyone with information leading to a suspect.
A homeless “monster” with a long rap sheet has been arrested for randomly stabbing to death a 14-year-old Florida schoolboy who went missing during a bike ride, police announced Thursday.
Semmie Lee Williams, 39, was arrested in Miami late Wednesday in connection to the Nov. 15 slaying of high school freshman Ryan Rogers, authorities confirmed at a press conference.
Palm Beach Gardens police chief Clinton Shannon said that the teen had been “stabbed to death” by a “dangerous monster.”
“This appears to be a completely random act. We do not have a motive,” Shannon said.
“I would best describe it as an innocent child victim having a chance encounter with a very violent criminal,” Shannon said, calling Williams a “homeless drifter.”
Ryan’s body was found hidden in a wooded area just 215 feet from a busy Interstate 95 overpass in Palm Beach Gardens on Nov. 16, the day after his family reported him missing, an affidavit said. An autopsy showed the boy had been “stabbed numerous times in the head and face,” the affidavit said.
Williams was linked through DNA on blood-covered headphones left near the body, the documents said. His DNA was in a database because of his lengthy record that has included time in jail, as well as a mental hospital.