Gardner Kent Fraser has been sentenced to a year in jail and and four years of probation for tampering with evidence linked to the death of Dominic Jerome DJ Broadus Jr. (YouTube/News4Jax)
A white man, Gardner Kent Fraser, whose father is a former cop, has been sentenced to one year in jail and four years of probation for tampering with evidence in connection to the death of his Black lover.
Fraser admitted to shooting and killing Dominic Jerome “DJ” Broadus Jr on 3 February, 2018 outside his home in Baker County, Florida. But because he claimed that he shot Broadus in self-defence, he did not face any charges related to the killing.
Dominic “DJ” Broadus II, who was only 31 years old, was killed by
Gardner Kent Fraser. On Jan. 25, Fraser, the son of a sheriff s office deputy, was only sentenced to one year in jail for tampering with evidence, and served no time for taking the life of another man, who was a son and father of a 13-year-old.
Dominic s father is now speaking out.
In a Jan. 26 interview on
Dominic Broadus Sr. reacted to the one-year sentence by saying, They re trying to feed us crumbs. We re all disappointed beause we know what the real charge should be, if not manslaugher then murder in the first degree.
Gardner Kent Fraser to one year in jail for the shooting death of 31-year-old
Dominic ‘DJ’ Broadus in 2018. The sentence isn’t for murder, however, it’s for tampering with evidence.
After fatally shooting Dominic, Fraser, the son of a former Sheriff Deputy, removed his phone from the scene. Investigators never recovered the phone, but they did find 115 phone calls and 35 text messages between the men. Dominic’s father claims Fraser killed his son to hide their sexual relationship.
“In an effort to try and keep his secret, he fatally shot my son in the back of the head twice and tried to destroy any evidence of their relationship by deleting all text from his phone and destroying/hiding my son’s phone, then calling three people before reporting the shooting to the proper authorities,” DJ’s father,