A teenager has died
after she responded to an offer to buy Kanye West-designed sneakers, Yeezys,
not knowing it was a trap.
18-year-old high
school senior Andrea Camps Lacayo answered a social media post offering to buy
the Yeezys which was for sale. Unfortunately, the Florida teen was shot dead
after she and her boyfriend went to deliver the Kanye West-designed Adidas
footwear to the prospective buyers, according to Miami-Dade police.
George Walton and
Adrian Cosby, both 19, were arrested on Saturday and face multiple felony
charges, including second-degree murder, attempted murder and attempted armed
robbery, the Miami Herald reported.
Police claimed
Lacayo's boyfriend Sergio Berben had arranged to meet Walton in Homestead to
sell him three pairs of the highly-sought sneakers for $935.
After the pair drove
to the address, they were instructed to drive around the corner to an abandoned
house, where they met Walton, who asked to try on the shoes.
But Berben asked to
see the money first; that's when police said Cosby approached the Jeep Wrangler
from the passenger side -- where Lacayo was sitting -- and opened fire, hitting
both occupants. Berben was grazed on the arm, but his girlfriend was hit in the
torso.
Berben sped off and
managed to raise the alarm; but after being rushed to Jackson South Medical
Center by Miami-Dade Fire Rescue, Lacayo was pronounced dead.
According to the
arrest report, Walton later admitted he never intended on paying for the shoes,
and was going to steal them as soon as he tried them on.
Both accused are
being held without bond.
Walton had no
previous arrests, while Cosby was arrested as a juvenile in November 2017 on
charges of grand-theft auto, robbery and carrying a concealed weapon. The
charges were dropped the following year.
Lacayo had been
attending Terra Environmental Research Institute, and had been accepted to
Florida International University where she wanted to pursue a degree in
nursing.
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