Danei Washington Gordon...arrested for murder

After two years, a photo of a murder suspect’s tattoo and a keen eye gave a U.S. Marshal the break he needed to capture a murder suspect, 1,300 miles away. 

Danei Washington Gordon, 21, was arrested after a deputy Marshal recognized the tattoo of a musical clef symbol on his right hand.

Gordon was wanted in the April 2013 murder of 73-year-old Neville Smith, who was beaten to death in his Miami home with a metal cooking pot. Miami detectives determined at the time that Gordon and his mother had been living in Smith's home after arriving in the U.S. illegally from Jamaica.

Police originally had difficulty tracking Gordon, but said they caught a break when he began using Facebook. Using the social media platform, authorities tracked Gordon to Hartford, Connecticut. Photos of his tattoos from the social media site were distributed to authorities.

According to reports, on the day of the incident, Smith confronted Gordon about alleged unruly behavior and drug use and threatened to have him deported. Gordon became angry and beat Smith to death. In July, 2013 an arrest warrant was issued for Gordon, charging him with second degree murder with a deadly weapon. But he was nowhere to be found.

After determining that Gordon was hiding out amongst the large Jamaican population in Hartford, U.S. Marshals conducted surveillance on the north side of Hartford. Someone resembling Gordon was spotted riding a bicycle and the deputy marshal pulled up next to him and recognized the special note tattoo on his right hand that the marshal would use to identify him. Gordon was taken to the Hartford Correctional Facility where awaiting extradition to Miami .The death of a loved one isn’t easy, especially if they died tragically by a person’s hands