THE DARK SIDE OF FLORIDA
Tyrone Barbary
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Full Name: Tyrone Barbary
Date of birth: February 25, 1973
Conviction: 2nd-degree murder
County: Miami-Dade
City: Miami
Current Location: Taylor Correctional Institution
Date of crime: October 21, 2001
Tentative discharge date: Life
Victim(s): Andre Robert Sloate
Date of birth: February 25, 1973
Conviction: 2nd-degree murder
County: Miami-Dade
City: Miami
Current Location: Taylor Correctional Institution
Date of crime: October 21, 2001
Tentative discharge date: Life
Victim(s): Andre Robert Sloate
Sergeant Curtis Hoosier, Miami Policeman, testified that on Sunday, October 21, 2001, he heard a radio call concerning a man shot at 1942 NW Second Court, and went to that address. The building at that address was abandoned and boarded up. Eventually, Hoosier found a dead body inside. The medical examiner testified that she had been told that a black male, a Puerto Rican female and a white male had been seen entering the abandoned building. The black male and the female were seen walking out. Andre Robert Sloate, a white male, was found dead with gunshot wounds. Three baggies containing heroin and a needle containing suspected narcotics were found under or next to Andre’s body.
Andre’s mother testified that Andre had been a heroin addict and had purchased narcotics in Overtown. Andre’s wallet was found in a dumpster behind a grocery store about a block from the abandoned building. There was no money in the wallet, but fingerprints were found on plastic cards in the wallet and on Andre’s truck. The fingerprints were identified as the fingerprints of Andrina Lopez, also known as “Jackie.” Jackie was also identified as a heroin addict, and there was evidence that she and Charles Stroman, also known as “Shorty,” had been living together in the apartment in the abandoned building where Andre’s body was found.
Tyrone Barbary, also known as “Black,” was found in Jackson Memorial Hospital where he was being treated for a gunshot wound to the abdomen. The bullet that wounded him was recovered following surgery, and was found to match the bullets recovered at the scene and from Andre’s body, so they were likely fired from the same gun. Gunshot residue was found on both Andre’s hands and on Tyrone’s hand, suggesting a struggle for the gun.
Dewan Brown, who was charged along with Tyrone, told police he had been walking down the street and saw Tyrone and Charles. They called him over and they told him they got a cushion white man in Charles’ apartment. “I asked him how much money does he have and the response was he got like $3,000, $4,000. And so… I’m like, ‘Well, shit let’s go.’” Dewan continued, “So we all went up in there; [Charles], [Tyrone], and his wife Jackie, who was already in the apartment with the white man. We get in there. They asked the white man where the money at or whatever. He gets into a struggle. The revolver goes off. [Tyrone] was shot. The white man was shot… [Tyrone] and [Charles] is struggle with the white man trying to get the money, whatever he had in his pocket. I’m trying to make my way out of there, out of the apartment cause I panicked… I left and went home.”
Dewan also told police he knew Charles and Tryone wanted to rob the white man, take all his money and “whatever,” that Tyrone was holding the gun when it went off, and that he never saw anyone pull out Andre’s wallet, never saw the wallet at all, because he was running away. Finally, Dewan told police he never received any money as a result of the incident.
Andre’s mother testified that Andre had been a heroin addict and had purchased narcotics in Overtown. Andre’s wallet was found in a dumpster behind a grocery store about a block from the abandoned building. There was no money in the wallet, but fingerprints were found on plastic cards in the wallet and on Andre’s truck. The fingerprints were identified as the fingerprints of Andrina Lopez, also known as “Jackie.” Jackie was also identified as a heroin addict, and there was evidence that she and Charles Stroman, also known as “Shorty,” had been living together in the apartment in the abandoned building where Andre’s body was found.
Tyrone Barbary, also known as “Black,” was found in Jackson Memorial Hospital where he was being treated for a gunshot wound to the abdomen. The bullet that wounded him was recovered following surgery, and was found to match the bullets recovered at the scene and from Andre’s body, so they were likely fired from the same gun. Gunshot residue was found on both Andre’s hands and on Tyrone’s hand, suggesting a struggle for the gun.
Dewan Brown, who was charged along with Tyrone, told police he had been walking down the street and saw Tyrone and Charles. They called him over and they told him they got a cushion white man in Charles’ apartment. “I asked him how much money does he have and the response was he got like $3,000, $4,000. And so… I’m like, ‘Well, shit let’s go.’” Dewan continued, “So we all went up in there; [Charles], [Tyrone], and his wife Jackie, who was already in the apartment with the white man. We get in there. They asked the white man where the money at or whatever. He gets into a struggle. The revolver goes off. [Tyrone] was shot. The white man was shot… [Tyrone] and [Charles] is struggle with the white man trying to get the money, whatever he had in his pocket. I’m trying to make my way out of there, out of the apartment cause I panicked… I left and went home.”
Dewan also told police he knew Charles and Tryone wanted to rob the white man, take all his money and “whatever,” that Tyrone was holding the gun when it went off, and that he never saw anyone pull out Andre’s wallet, never saw the wallet at all, because he was running away. Finally, Dewan told police he never received any money as a result of the incident.
Source: Florida Supreme Court