Kevin Nelson, who confessed to slaughtering a mother and daughter inside a Sunrise, Florida apartment, told cops after his arrest that he was afraid to get hurt.
Nelson had telephoned the Sunrise Police Department and confessed to killing Karen Lyle and Shanice Smith, who is the daughter of Jamaican entertainer Anthony Cruz.
“Shots were just fired. I am the person with the gun and there are two people dead,” the crazed man told the cops.
Shortly after the police arrived at his home with a negotiator.
He then told the cops that he was afraid of getting hurt, that he had hurt people, and that he was a failure.
“I am going to prison forever,” he said during a five-hour-long standoff with the CNU team.
Nelson surrendered after agreeing to place a semi-automatic pistol at the top of the stairs.
After Nelson, who is a naturalized American citizen, surrendered to the police, a search of the house revealed the bodies of the two females.
A police report said a search of the house resulted in the discovery of Lyle’s body in the master bedroom with a bullet wound to the head, and Shanice’s body at the top of the stairs with a bullet wound to the cheek. Both bodies were covered up to the necks with blankets.
Two days before he actually carried out the act, Nelson jokingly told his sister, Janice Smith, that he had killed both females. Perhaps he was signaling his intentions.
There are also reports that Nelson had called friends and relatives days before carrying out the act and complained that Lyle had been unfaithful to him.
Nelson, the report stated, had gone to his sister’s house with his son last Friday night and told her that he had got into an argument with Lyle and that he had killed her.
“Janice asked the defendant if he was kidding with her, with the defendant replying in the affirmative,” the report stated.
The report also stated that Nelson spoke with Lyle’s brother, Kenroy Walker, whom he texted: “Shanice, Karen and me are dead. The cops [are] here and the news crew.”
The report also stated that Nelson texted Lyle’s friend, accusing her of being unfaithful and embarrassing him on a regular basis. He also accused Lyle of cheating with her ex-husband.
“I’m sorry for everything,” he later texted. The friend is said to have called Nelson and was allegedly told, “I am sorry for everything. I shot her.” Asked about Shanice, he reportedly said: “I shot her too.”
Nelson later told police while in custody at the Broward Sheriff’s Office main jail, “I am in trouble. There are two dead people in there. I can’t explain this. No matter what I say it doesn’t matter, the facts are still there.”
He has been charged with two counts of premeditated murder.
