After a two-month search, TITANS (The Investigative Team Addressing Neighborhood Shootings) have arrested accused murderer Rontarius Summers, 21, and, in the process, seized nearly four pounds of marijuana and marijuana edibles, a shotgun, two pistols, one of which was reported stolen in a 2019 auto burglary, and $4,538 cash.
Summers was indicted earlier this year on a charge of first-degree murder for the September 2, 2021 fatal shooting of Andree Vidal, 20, in an alley behind the 1500 block of 9th Avenue North. Vidal was seated inside of a stolen (carjacked) Toyota Camry when he was shot. Investigation by lead Homicide Unit Detective Codey Mullins indicates the murder of Vidal was drug related.
As the murder investigation was advancing, Summers was arrested on November 11, 2021 on felony marijuana and gun charges. He posted a $13,000 bond in that case. The charges are still pending. TITANS detectives had been searching for Summers on the murder case since February. He was apprehended this week at a home on Emerald Bay Boulevard. Charges related to the marijuana and guns recovered from that home are pending.
A Criminal Court judge ordered that Summers be held without bond in the murder case.
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