Witness statements released Friday in the slaying of 22-year-old Florida International running back Kendall Berry contain a report that Berry was stabbed with a pair of scissors from the accused killer's bookbag.
Eyewitness Chidinma Orj told Miami-Dade police that as a fight grew outside the school's rec center, Quentin Wyche broke free and hurried back inside the building.
"Then he kind of stopped in front of where I was and took out like -- took his backpack off and took out a pair of scissors from the backpack," she said, saying that Wyche, 22, was "frantically" trying to break apart the scissors. "He was just saying stuff like, 'I'ma get him.'"
The reports, obtained by the Miami Herald, paint a disturbing picture of what occured at the school March 25 after Wyche got into a disagreement with Berry's girlfriend Regina Johnson when she refused to give him a ride on a golf cart she was operating for the school's Panther Safety Tram program.
"Regina told Kendall that `Q' had mushed a cookie in her face and was like 'eat the cookie, bitch,' because she wouldn't give him a ride," one of Berry's friends, Marquis Rolle, told police.
Antwoin Bell, a fellow football player who witnessed the shuttle incident, said Wyche threatened to have his sister beat Johnson up. She then hit him with a keychain.
And later in the day, after football practice, her boyfriend went to the rec center to confront Wyche. When his former teammate came outside with a friend, the two "squared up" and a snowballing melee ensued.
"I like ran to try and break them up, because 'Q' had something in his hand,'' Bell told police. "I see KB like falling, like he's injured or something, and then when I see him like that, [I said] 'Q,' don't stab him! Don't stab him!'"
An arrest warrant alleges Wyche hollered, "That's what he gets... I told ya'll," before running off. He turned himself in the next day, and the reeling FIU football program put spring ball on hold to bury one of their own.
Wyche has pled not guilty to with second-degree murder. His attorney, David Peckins, said he believes the killing was "justifiable" and that Orj's account is inconsistent with those of other witnesses, though several others also stated that Wyche broke away from the scrum to retrieve a weapon. Whether or not he could have kept running away from the fight is likely to be a sticking point at trial.
