Miramar teen was ambushed in an apartment stairwell, stabbed and beaten to death, police say

On the day of the murder, three teens gathered at a playground. They wore black. Two of them, a boy and girl, had latex gloves, do-rags and COVID masks to hide their identities. The third teen was the seducer, her job to lure an 18-year-old into a stairwell and ultimately to his death by the promise of sex.

Christie Rubee Parisien, 17, and Jaslyn Smith, 16, both of Miramar, and Andre Dexter Clements III, 17, of Pembroke Pines, each face charges of first-degree murder, tampering with evidence and criminal conspiracy.

The teens had a deadline: Their fellow student at Miramar High School had to die before homecoming on Oct. 30.

In the stairwell on Oct. 17, Dwight “D.J” Grant was ambushed. He was beaten in the face and had a sword plunged into his chest, records released Monday afternoon by the Miramar Police Department reveal.

Grant’s lifeless body was carried down a set of stairs, lobbed over a railing and dropped in some bushes while the teenage suspects cleaned up the bloody mess.

The three teens are being held at the Broward Juvenile Intake Facility in Fort Lauderdale, records say. Until the teens’ arrests, none of them had any criminal run-ins with police in Florida, according to records with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.

Grant, 18, was reported missing Oct. 17. by his mother. Two days later, a trail of blood near the apartment complex where he lived led to his body. Police believe Grant’s body was purposely hidden in the bushes. Next to his body was a knife, its blade broken.

In the days leading up to the killing, Parisien and Clements, who are girlfriend and boyfriend, hatched their plan for Grant’s death in text messages, an affidavit shows. Records say Clements wanted to have Grant killed because Grant had sex with Clements’ ex-girlfriend, a person Clements was apparently still “emotionally connected to,” records say.

“Murder will definitely happen soon,” Clements texted to Parisien on Oct. 11.

But when? The two teens continued texting.

“I’m not dealing with him rn [right now] — cuz if i do — it’ll be bloody — unless you [are] coming back down to help me kill him tonight — I’m not doing that rn. I’m this mental,” records show Clements wrote.

“I would help you, but you becoming a murders rn [right now] isn’t what is needed,” Parisien responded.

‘”It’s happening by hoco [homecoming.]

“Oh — see that I can help with,” Parisien said.

That same night, Parisien shared song lyrics she wrote on social media, attempting to dispel her “late night thoughts,” an Instagram post shows.

The words about typical teenage heartbreak show something was troubling her, rendering her “unable to think straight.” It was an attempt to clear her mind from her feelings, she wrote.

" … Since some of us girls know what it’s like to be made [to] look [like] the bad guy when it’s not really the whole story,” the caption on her post reads.

The couple didn’t keep the plan to themselves. Smith was brought to help and Clement even told his ex-girlfriend in a text message after confronting her about sleeping with Grant, the affidavits show.

The records include parts of text exchanges:

“We have plans for this person. ... So if he made you happy — get used to him not [being] here any more,” Clements texted.

The following day, the ex-girlfriend responds: “Are u guys [really] gonna kill him? And if so, are u going to hurt me too?”

Clements says he doesn’t want to say it over the phone, but he plans to “handle business Sunday” adding he will probably FaceTime her when it is done.

“Anything you wanna say to me,” Clements texts.

“I’m sorry,” she responds.

“I’ll take that into a consideration Sunday,” he texts.

Clement, Parisien and Smith were captured on time-stamped surveillance video entering Grant’s complex on Sherman Circle at 7:06 p.m. Oct. 17. Clements and Smith headed up the stairs while Parisien lured Grant out of his apartment with the promise of sex.

On a landing in the stairwell, Parisien is on Grant’s back, piggy-back style, when Smith and Clements come down the stairs, records say.

“You know why I am here,” Parisien told police Clement uttered to Grant. “You know I have to kill you now.”

Grant begged for his attackers to let him go, promising not to say a word to police, records say.

Surveillance video shows Grant attempting to get away, but he is overpowered by Smith and Clements and thrown to the ground.

For the next 30 minutes, Grant’s face is pummeled and then Clements plunged a small knife into the right side of his neck, according to the affidavit.

Parisien, who served as a lookout, told the others when Grant was making too much noise and watched for cars, records say.

Smith, records say, pinned Grant’s arms out as Clements drove the sword into his schoolmate’s chest.

The surveillance video captured Clements and Smith carrying what appeared to be a lifeless body out of the stairs, dropping the body onto the ground and throwing it over a railing and into bushes in front of the stairs, the affidavit says.

As Parisien cleaned up the mess in the stairwell, Smith and Clements dragged Grant to another set of bushes. A broken knife was left near his body. The teens gathered close to a lake and put some of their bloody clothes in a pile, dousing it with a flammable oil, records say.

When a security guard saw the fire, the teens scrambled to hide their bloody burnt clothes, tossing them in the lake, the affidavit says. After being chased away, Smith and Clements went back to the lake to fish out their clothes now floating on the water.

Their secret would remain safe for a few days until police went to the complex to speak with Grant’s mother about him being missing. There, police followed a trail of blood to Grant’s lifeless body.

Dozens of students flocked to Parisien’s social media Monday after hearing the news of the arrests in disbelief. One classmate posted that the story sounded like a TV script, struggling to understand how it could strike so close to home.