Suspect in officer’s slaying seen joking about cop-killing in Facebook video.
Broadcast on Facebook Live on Nov. 4, Sade Dixon and Markeith Loyd sat in their car during a traffic stop when the conversation turned to killing cops and to his driving.
“Go ahead and kill him, babe, so we can get home faster,” Dixon said, apparently joking about the officer.
“Then we ain’t never going home,” he fired back.
The 24-year-old woman answered with a chilling remark:
“You not about to kill me and the baby,” she said in a playful tone, referring to his speeding. “I’m not gonna make it to 25.”
A little more than a month later, investigators said, he killed Dixon and their unborn child at her Orange County home. Then, on Monday morning, police said, he killed a cop.
Loyd is accused of killing Orlando Police Master Sgt. Debra Clayton after she confronted him near a Wal-Mart on John Young Parkway and Princeton Street.
A look at his Facebook page, which has dozens of videos and posts, provides a glimpse into Loyd’s life of partying, lifting weights and disparaging women.
Now, as hundreds of local, state and federal law-enforcement officers search for him, with a $100,000 reward for his arrest, he’s gone silent.
Angry commenters calling for his head provide the only now.
From partying at a strip club to reading in bed with Dixon and hearing the heartbeat of his unborn child during a sonogram, the 41-year-old Loyd shared his activities daily with the world.
“I’m one of the best catches in the [expletive] world,” he proclaimed in a video posted on Dec. 6, talking with a friend. “Fine. Intelligent. Conscious. I got a little money.”
He was never shy about his physique, often posing shirtless or flexing his arm for the camera.
In another video posted on Nov. 21 showing him in bed with Dixon, he offered insight into his childhood, calling himself a “Blood [gang] sympathizer.”
“I’m from Carver Shores,” chatter on the page he said, referring to the west Orlando neighborhood. “Y’all know where it started at. Carver Shores. The hardest hood in the O.”
Dixon countered by saying she was from Washington Heights and pulled out what looked like a handgun, pointing it at the camera.
“We still rocking over here,” she said.
Written posts on his page discuss politics and the U.S. presidential race.
“Obama didn’t even speak for innocent blacks as we were gunned down in the streets,” the post says. “He haven’t [sic] done nothing for us, not even raise his voice.”
Another post the day before the election questioned why black people should support Hillary Clinton.
“Ya’ll just silly as you sound, Obama didn’t do nothing for you but give you an Obama phone,” the post opines.
According to a co-worker, Loyd was a delivery driver for New Texas Fried Chicken on John Young Parkway and South Street, across the street from the new Orlando Police Department headquarters.
Loyd worked there for about a year before disappearing sometime around Dec. 13, said a cashier at the restaurant who declined to give his name. That’s the day Orange County deputies say he shot Dixon. The cashier said he could never imagine Loyd killing anyone, and as a co-worker, “there is nothing negative I could say” about him.
“He was one of those guys you wanted to work with,” he said. “He was always around to give a hand. We are heartbroken about all the families who lost loved ones.”