Man arrested for murder of grandfather in Coconut Grove – NBC 6 South Florida

A man has been arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of a grandfather in Coconut Grove, according to arrest reports.

Albert Antown Sistrunk, 38, is charged with second-degree murder in connection with the killing of a man identified by his family as 57-year-old Christopher Jones.

According to police, the victim was riding his bicycle south on Douglas Road and stopped at Oak Avenue in Coconut Grove just before 1:30 a.m. At the same time, a white Nissan SUV coming from the opposite direction pulled into the intersection and the suspect allegedly got out of the car.

Sistrunk is accused of approaching the man and hitting him between the head and shoulder with a pistol.

“While the victim was being struck by the firearm, the weapon discharged and struck the victim in the left shoulder,” the police report states.

Sistrunk allegedly got back into the SUV and drove away.

Jones was found and taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital, where he died about an hour later, police said.

Authorities said they identified the SUV using surveillance video and license plate readers and tracked it to a home in Homestead. There, they allegedly saw the suspect, who matched the surveillance images, get into another car with a woman and arrested him.

“The perpetrator’s shirt and shorts appeared to have blood stains” and were confiscated, the arrest report states.

Sistrunk appeared in bond court Thursday on a cocaine possession charge in an unrelated case. At the time, it was said a murder charge against him was still pending.

He is expected back in court on Friday.

Friends of the victim said he was well known in Coconut Grove and rode his bike a lot.

“I just heard that he died, that Chris died. It makes me sad, you know, a young man with so much potential dies on the street corner, less than a block from where he lived, where he grew up and played ball in school. It’s just sad, just sad,” said his friend Theaddeus Scott.

The victim leaves behind a son who is a police officer in Georgia and a grandson, his sister said.