Friends, Family Pay Final Respects To Teen Killed Near Home
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MIAMI (CBSMiami) -- Friends and family are paying their final respects to a teen killed steps away from his Miami Gardens home.
A viewing for 17-year old Roderick Sweeting is scheduled for Friday starting at 4 p.m. at Mt. Hermon AME Church in Miami. His funeral is scheduled the next day at 1 p.m. at the Bethel Apostolic Temple.
Sweeting was shot and killed earlier this month while coming home from school.
Police arrested three teens in connection to his death and prosecutors are looking to charge them as adults.
Devon Vickers and Quamaine McMillian, both 15, and 16-year-old Rachid Jacques are facing first-degree murder and first-degree attempted murder charges.
They're accused of ambushing Sweeting and his 15-year-old brother, in a shooting so brutal, police said the bullets severed their target's spinal cord.
Sweeting died with his mother and brother by his side. His brother escaped without harm.
Investigators say surveillance video, fingerprints lifted from the fence surrounding the apartment complex, and witnesses confirm the three teen suspects were the killers.
The arrest affidavit alleges all three fired their weapons and shot Sweeting more than 20 times.
All three suspects remain locked up in juvenile detention until their next court hearing on April 29th, assuming a grand jury does not find that they should move to the adult court system first.
