TALLAHASSEE (CBSMiami/CNN) – A grand jury has indicted a person for first-degree homicide within the loss of life of Jorge Diaz Johnston, an LGBTQ advocate and the brother of a former Miami mayor Manny Diaz.
Diaz Johnston’s physique was found in a Jackson County landfill in January, a number of days after he was final seen. Police imagine Diaz Johnston was strangled after which his physique was wrapped in mattress linens and dumped within the trash at his dwelling, in line with a warrant.
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(Source: Tallahassee Police Department)
Steven R. Yinger, 37, was indicted final week by a Leon County grand jury on fees of first-degree homicide, tampering with proof, grand theft motorized vehicle, grand theft, and felony use of a private identification quantity.
The indictment alleges Yinger strangled Diaz Johnston between January 3 and 5. His physique was discovered the morning of January eighth.
Yinger is being held on the Leon County detention middle.
Diaz Johnston’s husband, Don Diaz Johnston, reported him lacking. Don Diaz Johnston advised police Yinger was Jorge Diaz Johnston’s roommate and Diaz Johnston had been planning to ask Yinger to maneuver out as a result of they hadn’t been getting alongside.
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“I am so angry. After all those years of trying to get my husband back, to have him ripped from me for such an utterly senseless reason,” Don Diaz Johnston in an interview final week.
He stated his late husband knew Yinger from an alcohol restoration program and took him in whereas he and Jorge had been separated.
“Jorge didn’t charge him rent, never had expectations, until he could get a job and support himself, and that’s who Jorge was,” stated Don Diaz Johnston.
Jorge and Don Diaz Johnston had been one in all six {couples} who filed a lawsuit in Miami-Dade County in 2014 difficult Florida’s ban on same-sex marriage. A Miami-Dade circuit decide dominated within the {couples}’ favor in 2015.
In January, the sufferer’s brother, Manny Diaz — chair of the Florida Democratic Party and the mayor of Miami from 2001 to 2009 — launched an announcement thanking police and metropolis officers who labored to find his sibling and examine the circumstances surrounding his disappearance.
“I am profoundly appreciative of the outpouring of support shown to me, my brother-in-law Don, and my family after the loss of my brother, Jorge Diaz Johnston. My brother was such a special gift to this world whose heart and legacy will continue to live on for generations to come,” the assertion stated.
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