A Duval County jury convicted a Jacksonville teen last night of
murder in the death of a friend shot by police while fleeing a
robbery Nov. 29.
Felton Aikens, 18, was convicted of second-degree murder and
two counts of armed robbery for the incident at the Burger King
restaurant on Monument Road. Michael Roundtree, 17, died when
police shot him after responding to the robbery call.
Aikens, who was shot twice by police, was charged under a
Florida law that allows someone to be charged with murder if
another person dies in the commission of certain felonies,
including armed robbery.
Aikens initially went to trial in July, but the jury couldn't
reach a verdict and the judge declared it a mistrial. Sentencing
is scheduled Oct. 2.
CRIME NEWS
ABDUCTION REPORTED: Police are searching for two men who
abducted a 24-year-old woman from the parking lot of the U.S.
Customs inspections office yesterday morning as she reported to
work.
The kidnappers forced the woman into the back seat of her green
Eagle Talon, parked at 2831 Talleyrand Ave. about 9:45 a.m. The
two men took her to a grocery store on North Main Street and
demanded she withdraw money with her ATM card.
Police said the pair released the victim after using her car to
conduct two drug deals. The victim told officers the men had
guns.
Police said the woman suffered minor injuries. Authorities did
not release descriptions of the men.
MEMORIAL BADGE STOLEN: A police badge that decorated a stone
monument to slain Jacksonville police Officer Lonnie Miller has
been stolen for the second time in a year.
Police said they don't know when the badge was stolen from the
memorial in front of the Sheriff's Office Forsyth Street
entrance, but the theft was discovered yesterday. The badge was
first stolen in late November, discovered in the possession of a
Jacksonville man a few days later and reinstalled a few months
later. The memorial was erected in early 1997.
"It is disappointing. This is the second badge stolen and we
thought we had an answer to that problem. But apparently the
epoxy didn't hold," said Sheriff Nat Glover. "This is a
hightraffic area, and I am sure there are times when there are
few people around, which would give them time to pry it out of
there."
Miller was killed while investigating a burglary at a Brentwood
car dealership on May 6, 1995. The slaying remains unsolved.
WOMAN MISSING: A mother reported her 20-year-old daughter
missing yesterday after a relative found the woman's apartment
empty and blood splattered on the phone and carpet. …