Did Miami, Florida’s Latravia Bell, Mikal Tavares Norman and Nathaniel Roberson shoot Gregory Boyd?

Gregory Coc Boyd of Miami, Florida, United States has died. He was 43.

“He was my friend, my best friend, my fishing partner,” Boyd’s wife Dorothy A. Boyd told WPLG. “He was a great man.”

Gregory, a pastor, was the leader of the New Birth Harvest Outreach Ministries Churches of Deliverance in Miami. He was fatally shot allegedly by his fellow Miami residents Nathaniel Bernard Roberson, 31, Latravia Charm Bell, 20, and Mikal Nelson Norman, 20.

On March 27, 2017, the Miami-Dade Police Department arrested Roberson for resisting officer without violence to his person and booked into the Miami-Dade County Jail in Miami. On May 23, 2018, Bell was arrested for possession of cannabis 20 grams or less and booked into the same jail.

On July 28, 2018, the Miami-Dade Police Department arrested Roberson for burglary of an unoccupied conveyance and booked him into the Miami-Dade County Jail. On September 10, 2020, he, Bell and Norman allegedly ambushed and shot at four people in a crowded parking lot outside the Shoe Time store near The Village Flea Market and Mall in the area of Northwest 27th Avenue and 79th Street in West Little River, Miami-Dade County.

While Bell, Robertson and Norman were firing their guns on September 10, 2020, Gregory was struck by the gunfire although he was not one of the targets. Critically injured, the pastor was taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital Ryder Trauma Center in Miami where he died shortly after arriving.

On October 16, 2020, Miami-Dade Police Department officers arrested Bell and Robertson for the fatal shooting of Boyd while Norman was still at large. Bell and Robertson confessed to their involvement in the crime when they were questioned by the officers and were booked into Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center in Miami.

Bell was charged with first-degree murder with deadly weapon and possession of a firearm, ammunition or a weapon by a convicted felon. Roberson was charged with charged with first-degree murder.

On October 19, 2020, Norman was arrested. He was charged with first-degree murder.