Second arrest made in death of Mayweather gym volunteer

Las Vegas police arrested a second man in the August shooting death of a volunteer with Floyd Mayweather’s Las Vegas gym, police documents show.

An arrest report accuses Rosean Taylor, 41, of helping Abdul Musawwir Mohammed, 55, plot to kill the volunteer and dump his body near the Nevada-california border. The report said the volunteer, Randall Smith, was shot early Aug. 25 in or near Mohammed’s Las Vegas apartment, and his body was concealed under a bush and rocks in the California desert.

Jail and court records refer to Mohammed as Carlton Burnett, but police said he goes by Mohammed.

“It appears to investigators Rosean Taylor and Carlton Burnett entered into a conspiracy to murder Randall Smith and dispose of his body in the California desert off Nipton Road,” the Metropolitan Police Department arrest report said.

Taylor was booked March 19 into Clark County Detention Center on counts of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder, jail records show.

Detectives used call and cell tower information to help identify Taylor as a suspect. Metro used call records to establish Mohammed as a suspect.

Taylor’s arrest report showed Mohammed exchanged eight phone calls with a redacted phone number. The phone number pinged off the same cell towers as Mohammed’s and appeared to have traveled with him to the vicinity of Nipton, California, where Smith’s body was found in late August.

A week before the body dump, a phone number registered to Taylor called Mohammed’s phone from an area near a Nipton cell tower, according to the report.

San Bernardino County Sheriff ’s Department deputies received the call of Smith’s body about 4:45 p.m. Aug. 27, the report said. His body was found just over the California border on Nipton Road, about a half-mile east of Interstate 15.

Department homicide detectives determined Smith was dumped at the site. He was found wearing an “access wrist band” for the Floyd Mayweather vs. Conor Mcgregor fight in Las Vegas, the arrest report said, leading investigators to think he was in Las Vegas for the Aug. 26 fight.

Through the course of their investigation, former homicide Lt.

Dan Mcgrath said in September, Metro detectives learned Smith was a volunteer at Mayweather Boxing Club, near Spring Mountain Road and Valley View Boulevard. Mcgrath said Mohammed also had unpaid ties to Mayweather’s gym.

A jury found Mohammed guilty of first-degree murder on March 19, court records show.