Prosecutors, defense deliver closing arguments in sentencing hearing for man convicted of murdering tourist in Miami Beach

A grieving mother made her final plea for justice merely hours before her son s murderer would receive his prison sentence as the defense and prosecutors delivered their closing arguments. On the third day of the sentencing hearing for 27-year-old Tamarius Davis, the mother of Dustin Wakefield hoped for accountability. It keeps happening if we don t hold people accountable for the evil that s in their heart and what they re doing, said Lora. It needs to stop. It needs to stop. Our children are being killed now. The hearing of 27-year-old Tamarius Davis began on Monday, after Davis pled guilty earlier this year to second-degree murder charges for fatally shooting 21-year-old Dustin Wakefield in front of his wife and 1-year-old on Miami Beach in 2021. Wakefield was visiting from Colorado, eating with his family at La Cerveceria, along the 1400 block of Ocean Drive, when Davis approached him and pointed a firearm at Wakefield s baby. Wakefield pled for this son s life