On June 11, 2024, Salem Albakri, 35, was shot and killed during an armed robbery at Miami Cloudz Smoke Shop, 2063 Northeast 163rd Street in North Miami Beach, Florida. Surveillance video shows four men entering the store; a gunman in a red hooded sweatshirt pointed a gun at Albakri and, when Albakri ran toward the rear, fired a single shot that struck him in the back. Emergency responders pronounced Albakri dead at the scene. Albakri, originally from Buffalo, New York, had recently opened the smoke shop to support himself and his wife, whom he had married less than a year earlier.

Investigators say surveillance footage and fingerprints lifted from the glass counter linked 22-year-old William Robinson to the scene; facial recognition and body-worn camera footage from a September 12, 2023 Miami Beach arrest were also used to confirm his identity. Robinson was arrested and booked on charges of first-degree murder and armed robbery and is being held without bond. The three other suspects seen in the footage have not been identified or arrested. Anyone with information is asked to contact Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers.