Jamaica killing revives S. Florida case
Suspect known to Lauderdale detectives
A decade ago, Omar Best Collymore’s girlfriend was shot dead in a Fort Lauderdale street. Her killer was never charged, but police always considered Collymore someone of interest.
Now his wife is dead. He was charged with murder after she was gunned down outside her apartment complex in Jamaica, and Fort Lauderdale detectives are working with Jamaican authorities in hopes of solving their own long-cold case.
The two slayings have several similarities, Fort Lauderdale Detective Tracy Figone said in a statement.
In addition to being romantically linked to Collymore, both women had life insurance policies that listed Collymore as a beneficiary, according to Broward court records and relatives.
For years, Collymore, 35, has been a person of interest in the slaying of Angela Aguiar on June 30, 2008. But Fort Lauderdale investigators didn’t have enough evidence to make an arrest.
Aguiar, 38, was killed about 3:30 a.m. when the couple were on their way to a downtown bar to meet friends. As they got out of their truck on Northwest Second Avenue, just west of the county’s bus terminal, an assailant approached the pair and shot Aguiar in the head and chest.
Collymore, who told police he saw the gun and darted away to take cover, was not hurt. Aguiar, a real estate agent, had bought a $1 million life insurance policy about a month before she was killed, court records show.
Elijah Aguiar, Aguiar’s son, has been waiting nearly a decade for justice for his mother’s killing and says he’s long lost confidence in police efforts to put Aguiar’s killer behind bars.
“Ten years later, I feel numb. I feel no matter what happens, it won’t bring her back,” he said. “I feel she never met her grandkids — I have two kids — and I feel hurt. I feel like a part of me died as well.”
On Angela Aguiar’s birthday, he takes his children to her gravesite to blow out candles and have cupcakes. The kids run around the