MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — A suburban Chicago man arrested as part of a trio accused of shooting a scooter rider with BB guns in Miami’s Brickell neighborhood has now been identified as a suspect in a March attempted armed robbery in Miami Beach, according to police.
Ayden Hanan, 23, of Gurnee, Illinois, had attempted armed robbery and masked aggravated assault charges added to his slate on Monday while already locked up in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.
According to the Miami Beach Police Department, the March 17 robbery attempt happened just before 11:15 p.m. near First Street and Meridian Avenue in the South of Fifth neighborhood.
An arrest report states that four men ― three masked and one unmasked ― got out of a Mercedes-Benz Maybach armed with AR-15-style rifles and handguns and went up to the victim and his Lamborghini.
Police said the unmasked man was identified by the victim as 30-year-old Yaritseldi Cruz, a “known associate,” and the victim later identified Hanan as one of the masked suspects.
Cruz, police said, hit the victim in the face with a “blunt object,” lifted his shirt to display a pistol and said, “I’ll take your chain,” then chased him while yelling, “Fight me, p---y.”
They said the victim identified Hanan “by his eyes and facial structure” and by the fact that Hanan “cocked a firearm and pointed it at him” after he called out Hanan’s name.
Additionally, the victim said he texted Hanan afterwards telling him that “what he did was wrong” and Hanan didn’t deny being there, saying “he was confused about why the situation escalated.”
“Detectives also discovered that the T-shirt worn by (Hanan) during the incident matched another photograph located on social media showing (him) wearing the same exact shirt,” the MBPD report states.
Records show that police arrested Cruz on April 22 in Miami’s Overtown neighborhood.
Hanan would be taken into custody, along with a Georgia and California man, early Monday morning in Brickell after the alleged BB gun drive-by.
As of Tuesday, Hanan remained at TGK after he was ordered held without bond.
Records show the case against Cruz, who lives in Miami’s Flagami neighborhood, remains pending in Miami-Dade court.
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