A second man has been arrested in connection with a shooting outside of a Pembroke Pines sports bar in October that killed one man and injured another, the police department said Tuesday.
Two men had been shot multiple times just before 4 a.m. Oct. 19 in the parking lot of Rickey’s Sports Bar and Grill at 8389 Pines Blvd. One of the men was pronounced dead that morning at the hospital while the second man survived, Pembroke Pines Police previously said.
Richaun Erick McKnight, 21, and Clayton Hicks, 27, are facing charges in connection with the shooting. McKnight’s arrest was announced Tuesday evening; Hicks was arrested the day after the shooting.
Surveillance video showed the two victims had been in an argument in the parking lot with a man wearing a gray track suit, then walked back toward their red Dodge Journey that was parked nearby, according to a probable cause affidavit.
The man in the track suit walked after them, raised his arm and fired a gun toward them, surveillance video showed, according to the affidavit. A second man wearing black, later identified as Hicks, then came into view and also shot toward the two victims, whose names are redacted in the affidavit.
Hicks was then seen running and getting into a white BMW X3 before picking up the other shooter and driving away west on Pines Boulevard, the affidavit said. License plate reader data led detectives to identify Hicks as the owner of the BMW.
Detectives found Hicks’s BMW in Miami-Dade County later that day and surveilled him before pulling the car over for a tint violation, according to the affidavit. Hicks told a Pembroke Pines Police officer who questioned him during the stop that he had been at the sports bar that morning and shot 22 rounds.
Hicks told the detective he “just started shooting” at one of the victims “because he heard shooting,” according to the affidavit. Hicks at first told the officer he had been alone but once shown the surveillance video said he had taken a friend named “Larry” home. He denied knowing the second shooter.
Court records were not available Monday night in McKnight’s case.
Hicks faces one count of second-degree murder with a firearm and one count of attempted second-degree murder with a firearm, court records show. He has pleaded not guilty.
McKnight as of Monday night is facing one count of second-degree murder with a firearm, the police department said in a news release. He was arrested in Fort Lauderdale in coordination with the FBI and Miami Police.