That usually means police expect more arrests in the case and that there is information on the charging document that could harm the case if it gets out. The exact details of the arrest remain sealed and haven’t been made public. It wasn’t immediately clear if Buckner had retained an attorney on the new charges.

Warneric Anthony Buckner with Chassidy’s murder,” the chief said. “While we recognize that nothing can bring back Chassidy, the Miami Police Department’s homicide unit has successfully established sufficient probable cause to charge Mr. In a prepared statement, Miami Police Chief Manny Morales said Buckner has been charged with a single count of second-degree murder and two counts of attempted first-degree murder. Miami Police said they will ask that he be transferred to state custody to stand trial for Chassidy’s murder. Though federal documents list him as Anthony Warneric, several law enforcement sources have confirmed it’s the same man suspected of taking part in the Memorial Day 2021 mass shooting outside the El Mula banquet hall in which 23 people were shot, including three who died. Warneric Anthony Buckner has not only been in federal prison the past six months on an identity theft conviction, he is also suspected of wielding a rifle in one of the worst mass shootings in South Florida history.īuckner, 22, is currently serving 30 months in West Miami-Dade’s Federal Correction Institution. More than two years after a little girl who liked to play dress-up princess was killed in a hail of gunfire at a friend’s birthday party, police have made an arrest.Īnd the man suspected of killing 6-year-old “Tik-Tok Princess” Chassidy Saunders in January 2021 is well known to law enforcement.

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