Jonathan Isaiah Lucas, 28, a Black male, left his home in the Princeton area of southwest Miami-Dade on the night of June 11, 2025, telling his girlfriend he was heading to a nearby convenience store on Southwest 112th Avenue. Moments later, he called her again in panic, saying a man who had recently threatened to kill him was following and shooting at him.
Surveillance footage from the store captured a Ford F-150 driving erratically, the driver stepping out and chasing Jonathan Isaiah Lucas, 28, before gunfire rang out. Deputies arrived to find Jonathan Isaiah Lucas, 28, suffering from multiple gunshot wounds in the front yard of a home in the 11500 block of Southwest 224th Street; he was airlifted to Jackson South Medical Center, where he died despite emergency treatment.
Detectives used license-plate readers to identify the truck and detained 53-year-old Alexander Mills soon afterward. According to investigators, Mills initially told authorities he had been waiting for police to find him and admitted to driving the truck that day; after receiving his Miranda rights he invoked silence, then later claimed self-defense, a version detectives said was contradicted by the video evidence. Jail records reflected charges of second-degree murder and illegal possession of a firearm or ammunition by a convicted felon, with Mills held at Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center while a motive remained unclear.
An official Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office release recorded the emergency call at 8:26 p.m., listed the scene as 11535 SW 224 Street, and identified the suspect as Alexander Mills, born June 6, 1972, arrested and charged with second-degree murder. The same release documented that the victim, identified as Jonathan Isaiah Lucas, 28, was transported to Jackson South Medical Center, where he succumbed to his injuries.
Public records of homicide victims in Miami also memorialized Jonathan Isaiah Lucas, 28, noting he was lost to gun violence on June 11, 2025, in Miami, Florida, aligning with the investigative timeline and confirming the date and place of death.
