After a quiet dinner with his grandfather Wednesday, Donicio Arrindell and his best friend headed out for the night.
Three hours later, he was dead and his friend Fredrick Gadson was critically wounded.
The duo -- lifelong friends and roommates -- are accused of storming into a Plantation Subway shop, armed and announcing a robbery.
They didn't plan to encounter retired Marine John Lovell, 71, who had just finished a veggie sandwich and had a gun tucked in his waistband.
On Friday, two days after the foiled holdup, the families of the accused robbers were trying to understand what happened.
''He has never been in trouble before,'' Margaret Gadson said of her 21-year-old grandson, Fredrick. ``I don't understand how this could happen.''
And while Gadson's family tries to see him at Broward General Medical Center -- where he is under police guard and has been charged with armed robbery and murder in the commission of a crime -- Arrindell's family is traveling back from vacation in Dominica to plan his funeral.
''This is a pity,'' said Meanwell Prince, his 75-year-old grandfather. ``This is more than shocking.''
Since the robbery, Lovell, a former airline pilot, has kept a low profile, with reporters camped out at his Plantation home.
I love a story with a happy ending....nice shooting!
Posted by: SOT
Lady he never got CAUGHT before...I'm sure he didn't just one day say... Let's rob a Subway...at gunpoint.
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