Brandon Antron Rolle Goes on Trial Today
[update: next hearing on the case is scheduled for 2008/01/17. looks like yet another pre-trial hearing before the big show. justice moves slowly in this case.]
Brandon Antron Rolle, the man accused of killing Ronald Gentile in Miami last year finally goes to trial today. The killing was the subject of a crime investigation show "48 Hours" that I saw on cable (probably in reruns) a few weeks ago. Ronald Gentile was in Miami to see his son and was returning to his hotel after dropping the son off at work when he made a wrong turn in his rental car. His stop to ask for directions turned into a mugging that became a murder. The fingerprint lifted off the car belonged to Brandon Antron Rolle, a felon who had been released from jail only months prior. Rolle was also identified as the man who tried to sell Gentile's driver's license.
The murder made national news and reports about it could be found on a handful of websites but nothing about the disposition of the accused could be found. What happened to the accused? Looking into the Miami court system, I found that Rolle's case had been slowly making its way to trial, with much pre-trial work being done first. Today is the hearing date.
Brandon Antron Rolle is a guy who received one chance too many. The sad reality of criminality shown by "48 Hours" is that same people commit crime after crime until they get caught for doing something serious enough to put them away for good. Perhaps this senselessness of the innocent suffering until the inevitable was the motivation for Philip K. Dick's Minority Report.
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January 9th, 2008 10:08
I wish peace for the family of Ronald Gentile. They have been through hell and back. I cant imagine this happening to me or anyone I know. Enough focus on that Vicious Animal( rolle), Lets focus on the people who need us, Ronalds Family (ExWife and son.!!!!) But I have to say I hope Rolle gets raped on an hourly basis in prison, I hope he gets it so bad in the *ss that he has to be de- intestinalized and shit into a colostomy sp?? bag. Him and his lowlife ghetto mother who obviously wasnt much of a mother need to be Deported BACK TO AFRICA!!
March 20th, 2008 21:50
Anyone know if Brandon Rolle got a life sentence for this murder? He should get 100 years.
April 19th, 2008 23:36
rolle was just a hood nigga chillin in the jungle and saw easy prey. it’s a sad thing that went down. that dude john needs to chill out with those racist comments we all have the same creator. peace god bless
April 19th, 2008 23:42
yo miami is crazy
2-year-old, mom shot in Miami
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By ANDRES AMERIKANER
aamerikaner@MiamiHerald.com
A 2-year-old boy was shot in the stomach after bullets flew at an apartment building at Northeast 64th Terrace and North Miami Court in Little Haiti around 9 p.m. Friday, according to a Miami Fire Rescue spokesman.
The child’s mother also was shot, sustaining a gunshot wound to the arm, fire department spokesman Ignatius Carroll said. Three other people were shot, too, apparently part of the same incident, according to Miami police.
”As soon as we arrived, the mother came running up and practically threw her son into the arms of a paramedic, screaming that her son had been shot,” Carroll said. “She also was bleeding.”
Paramedics took the child to Ryder Trauma Center, Carroll said. The child’s condition was undetermined, Carroll said, but added that the boy had suffered an entry bullet wound, which should be considered extremely serious for such a small child.
Three of the people made it to the hospital by their own means, said Miami police spokesman Willie Moreno. Their wounds were superficial, he said.
At the crime scene, Julia Peter of Miami Shores was waiting for her son-in-law, Ervence Auguste, to be interviewed by police. Auguste drove one of the victims to the hospital, Peter said as she waited behind the yellow tape.
”I guess he probably felt sorry for the kid,” Peter said. “He’s just trying to help out.”
A nearly three-block area was cordoned off by police as they examined three different scenes where ”multiple casings and a lot of blood” were discovered, Carroll said.
”We don’t have a motive for the shooting and we don’t have a subject description,” Moreno said. “All we have is five people shot.”