Suspects arrested in 2017 Hawthorne murder case
Release from Alachua County Sheriff’s Office
HAWTHORNE, Fla. – Christin Cassels was shot and killed in 2017, and a seven-year investigation began. The investigation led detectives to identify three suspects involved in Cassels’ death. Two people were arrested, and one is in federal prison awaiting extradition back to the state of Florida.
“I would like to commend our detectives for their diligence during the past seven years in pursuing justice for Christin,” said Sheriff Emery Gainey. “A special thank you to the detectives from the Broward County Sheriff’s Office for assisting us in capturing these violent individuals. Our thoughts and prayers are with the Cassels family at this time.”
On July 15, 2024, Keneth Altidor was arrested with the assistance of the Broward County Sheriff’s Office in Fort Lauderdale. On July 16, 2024, Blake Jackson was arrested in Hallandale Beach, in Hollywood, Florida, also with the assistance of Broward County Sheriff’s Office. Both Altidor and Jackson are in the Broward County Jail awaiting extradition back to Alachua County. The third suspect charged in the murder of Cassels is Nikenson Perin, who is in federal prison in Seattle Washington. Perin is awaiting extradition back to Alachua County.
Detectives are still working additional leads with the assistance of the State Attorney’s Office. Now that the suspects have been identified, if you have any information regarding this crime and those arrested, we want your information, not your name. Please contact 352-955-1818 or remain anonymous by contacting Alachua County Crime Stoppers Inc at 352-372-STOP(7867), downloading the Crime Stoppers P3 Tips app, or visiting https://www.stopcrime.tv/ . We will share more information as it becomes available.
Hmmm…some will claim it was the socioeconomic conditions that caused them to commit this “alleged” crime against another.
Here’s a question for those individuals, was it socioeconomic conditions that kept them hiding for 7 years?
Kudos to Sheriff Gainey and his team for staying on this and hopefully allowing the family to find closure.
Remember that diligence and commitment to getting the job done this election cycle.
It took seven long years in what sounded like a very tedious investigation with witnesses not talking. Glad ASO is able to get some closure for the family.
bye. enjoy Raiford from behind.
They probably thought they got off. 🤣🤣
Gottem
Oh, they most definitely had to after 7 years lol
Wow, you keyboard worriers are just plain DUMB. So as someone who went back and read the articles and saw a common thing, the only person talking and giving a story is this girl’s mother who wasn’t there. Her “boyfriend” that she lived with has never said anything and never came forward and has never been named and do you know why? Because he was a drug dealer and let’s be real if he was, she was by proxy. Now in several different articles, the cops have said it was a botched robbery. Robbery of what? the cops even said that they were looking for money and “narcotics”. If you ever took the time to investigate where this happened there is no way that whoever went there just went there on a hunch. The house is set back from the road in a rural county. She got out of the car to go get scrubs, but the boyfriend came out of the house as the shooting started…. mmm something does not sound right? oh and did we forget that the never-named boyfriend shot back? Let alone where was she found dead the garage the house outside? every article says something different Then after this shooting, they bring out the helicopters, swat, and the dogs, and find NOTHING????
oh, wait then a few weeks later they have a suspect that she was “friends” with Blake who they went to NJ to see and then had him sent back to Florida where he was now a suspect It took 7 years to arrest him. After he was arrested for drugs, and auto theft in 2 different counties?
let’s look at the facts wait there are none just her mother talking about the loss of her daughter over and over again she is the only one talking the only one pushing the narrative I’m sorry she lost her daughter but lets be real her daughter was involved with a drug dealer and this was always a possibility.
Now let’s talk about the suspects Blake I know nothing about him other than that he was and has been a suspect for 7 years on this case and that he has been arrested for selling drugs and cars. Nikenson all I know is he is in the federal prison system. But Keneth from all the different social media linkedin Facebook and Instagram is just a hardworking man living in South Florida and working in the medical field for over 10 years now who has NO CRIMINAL HISTORY. So someone make it make sense oh wait you can’t because it doesn’t