The New Jersey man accused of shooting and killing Miami Police Capt. Robert Yee back in 2009 at a South Florida marina has been found guilty of first-degree murder. The verdict came down Thursday.
Rafael Toirac-Aguilera is accused of the execution-style murder of Yee on July 10, 2009, at the Hurricane Cove Marina.
An arrest warrant said Toirac-Aguilera became a suspect when his DNA and a fingerprint were recovered from an orange juice bottle left at the scene of the murder. Police believe the orange juice bottle was used as a makeshift silencer on the weapon that killed Yee.
Toirac-Aguilera's girlfriend told police the two had driven from New Jersey to Miami to visit friends in a silver Toyota Corolla in July 2009, and that Toirac-Aguilera was gone for hours on the day of the Yee murder.
When detectives questioned Toirac-Aguilera about where he was on July 10, he said he was in New Jersey working at a body shop.
Retired after 25 years on the force, Yee, 61, was working as a security guard at the Marina on North River Drive.
He was found with multiple gunshot wounds to the back of his head and died a short time later at Jackson Memorial Hospital.
