
DNA evidence obtained from a pair of Air Jordan shoes helped investigators arrest an Orange County teen Monday in the monthslong investigation of a Kissimmee robbery that killed two, according to law enforcement.
Marcus Previlus, 18, is the latest suspect arrested in the July 9 attempt to steal from 20-year-old Adrian Gonzales at an apartment in the area of Marta Circle.
Previlus was arrested by Osceola County Sheriff’s Office deputies with the assistance of the U.S. Marshall’s Office and booked into the Osceola County jail. His first court appearance was Tuesday afternoon on a charge of murder while engaged in home invasion robbery, according to court records. He was not released and a pretrial release hearing is set for Thursday, the records said.
According to police, four men arrived in a car. The driver lured Gonzales outside under the pretense of getting drugs before the three passengers ambushed him at gunpoint and forced him back into the apartment, according to Previlus’ arrest warrant.
Gunshots eventually broke out and Gonzales and a suspect, 21-year-old Jeamond Cleus, were killed, the warrant said. Osceola deputies responded to the scene and found the second robber, Isaiah Bey, hiding in a bush with a gunshot wound and a gun stolen from Gonzales’ apartment, the warrant said.
Bey, who was detained, later told police the four had gone to rob Gonzales over drugs and was eventually arrested. The driver, Quinton Douglas, was identified a week later using the phone number used to lure Gonzales and was eventually arrested, according to the warrant. Deputies still hadn’t located the third suspect, who they now say is Previlus, according to a press release Tuesday from the sheriff’s office.
Previlus was identified after his phone number was found in the phones of Douglas and Cleus, with whom police said he was an associate. He also matched the description of the third suspect on Gonzales’ Ring camera and his phone location data showed he was in the area of the apartment at the time of the incident and left immediately after, the warrant said.
Police obtained DNA evidence from Previlus that matched DNA found on black-and-yellow Air Jordan 4 Retro Thunder shoes the third suspect was wearing during the robbery captured on apartment surveillance footage. The shoes were later found in a search of Douglas’ Cadillac, the car used in the robbery, according to the warrant.
Deputies questioned Previlus, who said he only came to the scene after the shooting because Douglas asked him to help him look for Cleus and that Douglas had given him the shoes so he could walk through fields of grass while looking for Cleus.
A warrant was secured for Previlus based on DNA evidence and other factors.


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