Man indicted in fatal shooting of 92-year-old neighbor in Pembroke Pines
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Wesley James Perez. (Broward Sheriff s Office)
PEMBROKE PINES, Fla. – Grand jurors have indicted a 25-year-old South Florida man for first-degree murder in the shooting death of his 92-year-old neighbor.
Wesley James Perez was arrested in March 2020, two days after the body of Fernando Frias was found during a welfare check at his home in Pembroke Pines.
Police say Frias was shot 11 times.
Neighbors had called 911 after hearing gunshots.
An incoherent caller also dialed in but kept hanging up. Police traced the call to Perez’s home.
Police traced those calls to Perez‘s home. When they arrived at his home, they found a fully-clothed Perez in the swimming pool rambling in Spanish. He was saying things like, “Fernando, do you know who I am,” “25 years,” and “40 by 40,” the arrest report said.
Officers were not able to make sense of what Perez was saying. So they took him to a hospital for a mental health evaluation, unaware then that Frias had been shot next door.
The next day, one of Frias’s sons found his father’s body during a welfare check after not hearing from him, the report said.
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