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The resentencing proceedings continue for Harrel Braddy, the man convicted of murdering 5-year-old Quantisha Maycock after leaving her to be attacked by alligators in the Florida Everglades in 1998. On Thursday, medical examiner Emma Lew presented her analysis of the injuries and lacerations the child suffered. Harrel Braddy Lew testified that the girl was alive at the time of the alligator attack, adding that her analysis shows the child’s arm was torn off by a gator and that deep bite marks were found on her skull. The medical examiner also explained that marks on the child’s body indicate she may have been attacked by snapping turtles and other marine animals. The hearing is scheduled to continue on Friday at 9 a.m. The resentencing trial “She was five years old. She was smart. She was loving. She was sweet like candy,” State Attorney Abbe Rifkin told jurors Tuesday as Braddy’s resentencing trial began. On Tuesday, Quantisha’s mother, Shandelle Maycock, came face-to-face with Braddy in court. She testified that Braddy and his wife befriended her through a church group in the late 1990s. “I am here if you need me. I am here. Just like that, I am here,” Shandelle recalled Braddy telling her when their acquaintanceship began. Shandelle testified that Braddy offered her rides to work and gave her money. But one night, she told jurors, she asked him to leave her apartment because she had company coming over. She said Braddy became enraged. “You what?!” Shandelle recalled Braddy yelling. Prosecutors say Braddy then threw her to the ground, got on top of her, straddled her with his hands, and choked her. “You used me,” Shandelle testified Braddy said during the attack. According to prosecutors, Braddy then forced the mother and child into a car and drove them into the Everglades. Hialeah 12 hours ago Hialeah jewelry store worker arrested in $30K theft from shop: Police Caught on Camera 17 hours ago Video shows Miami-Dade deputy fatally shoot armed shoplifting suspect outside Walmart Shandelle was dumped first where she said she passed out after being severely beaten but later regained consciousness and was able to find her way to safety. Quantisha did not survive. The child’s mutilated body was later found near a canal. Prosecutors say she suffered severe injuries consistent with an alligator attack. “Deep into her skull, teeth marks, where an alligator tried to bite her head,” Rifkin said while describing the injuries to jurors. Following his 2007 trial, Braddy was sentenced to death, but that sentence was reversed in 2017, after the U.S. Supreme Court found Florida’s death-penalty law unconstitutional. Consequently, the Florida Supreme court ordered for several defendant’s death sentences to be vacated and granted them new penalty phase trials. In this resentencing phase Braddy could once again face the death penalty under Florida’s 2023 law that allows a death sentence to be recommended with an 8-4 jury vote. Judges have the ultimate say. Braddy is a convicted felon and had been sentenced to 30 years behind bars but was released within about 18 months prior to killing Quantisha in 1998.

A worker at a Hialeah jewelry store was arrested after he allegedly stole tens of thousands of dollars worth of items from the shop, police said. Eduardo Gongora, 35, was arrested Wednesday on a grand theft charge, Miami-Dade jail records showed. Eduardo Gongora According to an arrest report, the alleged thefts happened at Yene Joyeria on West 16th Avenue. On Wednesday, the store’s owner contacted police saying he’d received an anonymous call telling him an employee had been stealing jewelry from him. The owner went through an inventory list and found some items were missing, and said Gongora was responsible for documenting inventory at the end of the night, the report said. He said he cross referenced order and invoices with what had been sold or what was still in his inventory and noticed a large number of pieces missing, and said he spoke with Gongora, who confessed to taking jewelry, the report said. Gongora had numerous items that he’d taken that day in his bag worth around $10,000, the report said. When questioned by police, Gongora confessed to the theft, saying he’d done it numerous times before and would sell the items to another jeweler, the report said. Detectives searched Gongora’s home and found another $20,000 worth of jewelry that had been stolen, the report said. Gongora was arrested and booked into jail.

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