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Crazed ‘killer’ dances on victim’s body

- Jackie Salo

A Georgia man “randomly” shot and killed a tourist in a Miami Beach restaurant and danced over his body as the man tried to protect his 1-year-old baby from the gunman, reports said.

Tamarius Blair Davis, 22, of Norcross, was allegedly high on psychedeli­c mushrooms when he opened fire on 21year-old Dustin Wakefield at close range before he danced over his body in view of horrified onlookers dining outdoors at La Cerveceria de Barrio on Miami Beach’s famous Ocean Drive on Tuesday night, witnesses and police said.

Wakefield, who was on vacation from Castlerock, Colo., attempted to protect his 1-year-old son before he was shot multiple times, his family told the Miami Herald.

“This guy came in with a gun waving it, saying ‘It’s time to die.’ He pointed the gun at his son and Dustin said, ‘He’s only a boy,’” his uncle, Mike Wakefield, told the newspaper.

“Dustin stood up between the gunman and the baby and he shot him. He shot him multiple times on the ground.”

Video obtained by WSVN shows the alleged shooter dancing as screams are heard from inside the restaurant. A witness told the station he had been told the deranged gunman appeared to be smiling and laughing throughout the attack.

He later told police he took mushrooms “which made him feel empowered,” FOX 13 said, citing his arrest report.

Footage showed Davis in an alleyway next to the scene, yelling, “I did it. I did it,” the Miami Herald reported.

Officers ordered him to drop the weapon and he complied, then was taken into custody. He was jailed without bond.

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