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Video: Suspect Denies He Murdered Rabbi Raksin

Miami Police and prosecutors say Deandre Charles is a cold-blooded killer who shot Rabbi Joseph Raksin – who was visiting from Crown Heights, Brooklyn – after trying to rob him and getting away with nothing. But during two interrogations with police that were released through court discovery, Charles is heard maintaining his innocence in multiple interviews with detectives.

In late May of 2015, Miami-Dade Detectives sat down with Charles and confronted him with testimony from an eyewitness.

“How would you explain that?” a detective asks him.

“I don’t know. I was not there. I would explain it like – I was not there. I don’t know what the hell he’s talking about. I don’t have no clue what he’s talking about,” Charles responds.

Detectives also told Charles that they have physical evidence linking him to the crime.

“There’s something on that scene that we recovered with your partial DNA on it.”

“Lies,” Charles snapped back.

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11 Comments

  • Cold Blooded

    What did you expect from this cold blooded killer, that he will admit his guilt?
    I hope he is room temperature very soon.

  • Observation

    As he finishes saying (beginning of video) “No DNA because I was not there” he rubs his nose. A common documented sign someone is lying!

    And he changed his story from being at the site around time of murder to not being the.

    Hashen Yimchem Domom

    • Milhouse

      he rubs his nose. A common documented sign someone is lying!

      Nonsense. This is not documented at all, and it has no basis in fact.

    • yup

      he’s either lying, is a crack user or has allergic rhinitis with the nose-rubbing.

  • Elvis Presley

    God will give him what he truelly deserves God doesn’t miss a thing especially when such a low creature took away such a pure holy godly soul it’s obvious this low life won’t have a happy one and I can promise u as a servant of God it will only be a matter of time until God/karma will give him a shtup arain so hard it will send him flying straight into gehenim

  • How Do You Know?

    I want the murderer found and prosecuted (or killed) as much as anyone else, but isn’t it at least possible that he isn’t the murderer?

    How can you be sure that he’s the one who did it when you have none of the facts? (Nose rubbing conjectures are nice, but come on).

    Again, I want the animal who did this dead like everyone else, but I think that it’s important to not let emotions cloud the justice system. Law enforcement has had lots of pressure to close this case and that has – in other instances – been a reason to charge innocent men with crimes they didn’t commit.

    Hashem Yinkom Domov and may we know of only simcha

    • Milhouse

      Exactly. Until we see the evidence presented at trial, we have no way of knowing whether he’s even likely to be guilty. We don’t know what sort of evidence they really have. The police are allowed to lie to him, so just because they say they have something doesn’t mean they do.

    • Milhouse

      Really! And what does touching the right ear mean? And the left ear? The eyebrows? Where can we learn this wonderful science of…whatever you call it? And on what empirical basis does it rest? Please enlighten us, oh master of bobbemaises.