At least one suspect has been arrested in connection with the armed home invasion robbery in Florida City involving a University of Miami football player earlier this month, records showed.
Terrell Jermaine Lipscomb, Jr., 19, of Opa-locka, was arrested Wednesday on a charge of home invasion robbery with a firearm in the Jan. 10 robbery of Hurricanes defensive back Bryce Fitzgerald, an arrest report said.
According to the report, Fitzgerald told police he was attending a birthday party at an Airbnb in the 500 block of Northwest 7th Street when the lights went out and three masked males wearing all black came through the front door.
Fitzgerald said they came up to him and said “where is the chain, give up the chain” while one suspect put a rifle to his head, the report said.
The suspect hit Fitzgerald three times in the leg with the butt of the rifle before Fitzgerald handed over the chain, and the suspects fled, the report said.
A witness who was at the home later identified Lipscomb as one of the robbers, the report said.
Investigators contacted Lipscomb’s mother on Wednesday saying they needed to speak with him, and he later showed up at the Florida City Police Department.
Lipscomb initially said he was at a friend’s house in Homestead the night of the robbery but then stopped the interview, the report said.
He was arrested and booked into jail.
The report said another suspect, 20-year-old Rashiem Damadre Lipscomb, was in custody in connection with the robbery, but he wasn’t listed in jail records and his charges were unknown.
Fitzgerald, a freshman from Miami who played football at Christopher Columbus High School, later told NBC6 it was a “scary moment” when he was robbed.
