Rabbi Yosef Raksin, HYD

Prosecutor: Murdered Rabbi’s DNA Inside Getaway SUV

Prosecutors fighting to keep the accused murderer of Rabbi Yosef Raksin, Deandre “Big Boy” Charles, behind bars before ​the trial begins, argued during a bond hearing Wednesday that they found the rabbi’s DNA inside a getaway vehicle they linked to the crime scene.

They say ​Deandre, tall and skinny and 14 at the time of shooting, pulled the trigger of the .40 caliber PT series Taurus firearm that ended Rabbi Joseph Raksin’s life in August 2014, as he walked to synagogue around 9 a.m. on a Saturday in Northeast Miami-Dade.

Prosecutor Michael Van Zamft said ​Deandre and a cohort ran from the scene on Northeast 175th Street and Eighth Court and escaped in a waiting Cadillac SUV driven by another man — a vehicle they believe was at the scene of a nearby robbery earlier that morning. That same Cadillac SUV, prosecutors say, can be seen on video from a surveillance camera at Sable Palm Elementary on the same morning only four blocks from where Raksin was killed.

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