A Broward County man was arrested in Georgia last week in connection with a murder inside of a Pompano Beach smoke shop earlier this year, deputies said.
An unidentified person entered the Fire Up Smoke Shop in the 1200 block of East Sample Road shortly after midnight on March 30 and shot Sayf Abdelaziz, 27, as he was at the front counter of the store and immediately ran away, the Broward Sheriff’s Office said. Abdelaziz was pronounced dead there.
Claurry Paul, 25, of Pompano Beach, was identified as the shooter and found on June 30 at an apartment in the Atlanta area, the Sheriff’s Office said in a statement Monday. The Sheriff’s Office did not provide details about the investigation leading to Paul’s arrest.
As of Monday afternoon, Paul remains in the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office jail. He faces one count of first-degree murder with a firearm and will be extradited to Broward County.
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