Man found guilty of murdering a teen in a botched robbery over Yeezy sneakers. Chaos erupted

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Man found guilty of murdering a teen in a botched robbery over Yeezy sneakers. Chaos erupted

Adrian Cosby was mostly stone-faced Friday as Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Miguel M. de la O read a jury verdict that found him guilty of murdering a teenage high school student four years ago during a botched robbery.

He began shaking slightly as the father of Andrea Camps-Lacayo, the 18-year-old senior he was convicted of murdering, began to speak during the sentencing phase.

And he erupted and chaos reigned in courtroom 4-1 of Miami-Dade’s ********* courthouse when Alex Camps turned to Cosby, called him a “monster,” then blamed his actions on his upbringing.

“What the f— you talking about,” was one of the few things Cosby said before about four Miami-Dade Corrections and law enforcement officers were able to subdue him as he tried to get to Camps and get over a low wall behind him where family and friends had been sitting.

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Adrian Cosby has to be restrained in a Miami-Dade courtroom late Friday, Oct. 25, 2024, after he was found guilty of murdering Andrea Camps-Lacayo, an 18-year-old student at Terra Environmental Research Institute in West Kendall. She was ******* in 2020 in a botched robbery of expensive sneakers. Cosby leapt at Andrea’s father while he was reading a statement in court.

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By then, everyone in the courtroom were on their feet. Some were moving for cover. Others, angered at the verdict and Camps’ speech, were screaming at him and racing to get out of the courtroom. About 20 minutes later, once order was restored, de la O read his sentencing. Cosby had not returned.

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Adrian Cosby has to be restrained in a Miami-Dade courtroom late Friday, Oct. 25, 2024, after he was found guilty of murdering Andrea Camps-Lacayo, an 18-year-old student at Terra Environmental Research Institute in West Kendall. Cosby leapt at Andrea’s father while he was reading a statement in court.

Life for the ******* of Andrea Camps-Lacayo. Life for the attempted ******* of her boyfriend Sergio Berben. And 25 years for the attempted strong-arm robbery of the teen couple who were students at West Kendall’s Terra Environmental Research Institute.

“I told you last time that I can’t give you justice,” de la O said to the family. “This is a tragedy for everybody. They lost their son and you lost your daughter. And there’s nothing I can do for anyone.”

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Alexander Camps comforts his wife, Maria Camps-Lacayo, after hearing the guilty verdict of Adrian Cosby. Cosby was convicted Friday of murdering their daughter Andrea Camps-Lacayo, an 18-year-old student at Terra Environmental Research Institute in West Kendall. After the verdict was read, Cosby leapt at Camps as he was reading a statement in the courtroom.

Jury said Cosby fired fatal bullet

It took jurors less than two hours to decide that Cosby, 22, fired the bullet that ******* Camps-Lacayo during a bungled attempt to rob three pair of rare and expensive sneakers from her boyfriend Berben in Homestead four years ago. Cosby is the second defendant in the case to be found guilty. In February, George Oshane Walton, 24, was sentenced to life in prison for taking part in the *******.

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Alexander Camps and Maria Camps-Lacayo react after hearing the guilty verdict of Adrian Cosby, who was convicted Friday of murdering their daughter, Andrea Camps-Lacayo, 18, in April 2020 in a botched robbery in Homestead of expensive sneakers. She was a student at Terra Environmental Research Institute in West Kendall.

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Jurors learned that Berben, through a friend, agreed to meet a man named Eric Readon who was to purchase three pair of Yeezys — a ****** venture between rap superstar Kanye West and Addidas — for $935. Berben, a sneaker head, had been making extra cash since middle school selling ****** market sneakers through an

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By that April 7, 2020, day, Berben and Readon had not yet agreed where to meet, so Berben took Camps-Lacayo to breakfast.

As they were eating, Berben’s cellphone rang. It was Readon, telling him to meet in a Homestead subdivsion. So Berben set off in his white Jeep Wrangler, Camps-Lacayo in the passenger seat. Once the couple entered the gated community, he spoke to Readon again, who told him to park in front of an abandoned home down the street.

Berben told jurors he was holding one pair of the shoes, his girlfriend the other two when Walton showed up instead of Readon. They began speaking through the driver’s side window. Walton never displayed a ******* or tried to steal the shoes.

But as they were talking, Berben said, he noticed, through his sideview mirror, that Cosby was making his way toward the Jeep from behind. As Cosby got next to Walton, he opened *****, striking Berben first in the left arm, the bullet exiting and hitting Camps-Lacayo in the stomach.

Berben floored the Jeep and raced outside the complex, where he called 911. Camps-Lacayo lost consciousness as he was holding a towel to her bullet wound and listening to instructions from the 911 operator.

Defense said Cosby wasn’t shooter

During closing arguments Friday, defense attorney Dustin Tischler pressed jurors on the lack of physical and forensic evidence produced at trial and said Berben was mistaken in identifying Cosby as the shooter.

He showed jurors how easy it is to make a mistake during a tense situation by pointing out that he at first told police Walton was wearing a ****** shirt, when he was dressed in a white sweatshirt the day of the *********.

“This was an unspeakable tragedy. Andrea was a beautiful, beautiful girl and had her whole life ahead of her,” Tischler said during closing arguments. “But he [Berben] made a mistake in that brief one or two seconds that the firearm was produced and fired. He said it was Cosby.”

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Andrea Camps-Lacayo

On rebuttal, Miami-Dade Assistant State Attorney Sara Imm said she found it unbelievable that the defense would expect jurors to believe that Cosby, who had been with Walton earlier and was with him again after the *******, just accidentally showed up at the Jeep when Camps-Lacayo was *******.

“The video [grainy and from a distance] clearly shows you which person has the firearm,” she said.

After closing and before the eruption, Alex Camps put an arm around Berben and told him the family loved him.

“We want you know that nothing that happened that day is your fault,” Camps said speaking to Berben. “It’s really the fault of three monsters.”

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Miami, Florida, October 22, 2024 – With Judge Miguel de la O looking on, Sergio Berben, the then- boyfriend of Andrea Camps-Lacayo, left, testifies in Judge Miguel de la O’s courtroom on the first day of Adrian Cosby’s trial for the ********* ****** of 18 year-old Andrea Camps-Lacayo.

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