infoFlorida murder suspect’s sister, mother arrested in teen’s shooting death

Florida murder suspect\u00e2\u0080\u0099s sister, mother arrested in teen\u00e2\u0080\u0099s shooting death

Police were called about a shooting shortly after midnight in which Deven Bryan, 17, suffered a gunshot wound. He was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Hunter Thomas Smiroldo, 18, has since been arrested on a second-degree murder charge.

His mother, Patricia Smiroldo, 59, and his sister, 25-year-old Marisa Smiroldo, have since been arrested on charges of accessory after the fact to second-degree murder.

Probable cause affidavits show that about an hour after the shooting, Hunter Thomas Smiroldo texted his mother and told her that he had shot and probably killed someone but she didn\u00e2\u0080\u0099t see the text until about 5 a.m.

Later that morning, she and another witness picked up Hunter Thomas Smiroldo and he gave them two Glock handguns that his mother had purchased for him two years prior, records show.

Patricia Smiroldo took her son to the police department on Sunday so he could turn himself in but Hunter Thomas Smiroldo refused to answer questions and there wasn\u00e2\u0080\u0099t enough evidence at the time to make an arrest so he was allowed to leave.

After that, the mother and son met with other family members and decided to take the gun and ammunition to another relative\u00e2\u0080\u0099s home but ultimately Patricia Smiroldo put them in a green duffel bag and threw it by the railroad tracks on Micco Road, where it was located, records show.

Police said Marisa Smiroldo also knew that her brother was wanted in connection with the fatal shooting and she was trying to get him to flee the area so she could hide him.

According to the report, an officer in an unmarked vehicle saw Marisa Smiroldo assisted her brother to a vehicle while he had a jacket over his head and then driving away as he ducked in the back seat.

All three family members have been booked into the Brevard County Jail.