In The Diplomatic Corps

Roxanne Dubé became Canadian consul general in Miami in November.
Ottawa Citizen

"During the negotiations, both deceased victims became involved in an exchange of gunfire."
"While sitting in [the] homicide unit, defendant (allegedly) stated he was going to kill Detective Garcia and that he would shoot him in the head"
Miami Police Department report

"It makes me sad looking at that picture [of his son]."
"Now I’ve lost my 17-year-old son, and I don’t see how to change it. It’s too late."
"Add to that the case of (my younger son) – he’s not even cleared. It’s too much for somebody like me. I’m not somebody accustomed to this kind of life."
Germano Wabafiyebazu

Jean Wabafiyebazu, the 17-year-old son of Canadian diplomat was killed Monday in what the boy's father says was a drug deal gone wrong.   photo supplied

And nor, presumably, is the two boys' mother, Canada's appointed Consul General in Miami, separated from the father of the two boys, and bringing them with her to her Miami posting. Where they somehow came in possession of guns, and planned to ambush a drug dealer to take five thousand dollars' worth of drugs from him, in an operation that the Miami Police speak of as a 'drug deal gone wrong'. 

The two boys were driving their mother's diplomatic-plated black BMW. They had driven to an apartment building where they meant to transact their business; the acquisition of the drug cache. While inside the building the older of the two boys was shot. "That's what we believe, it was a dispute over a drug transaction" involving marijuana, Chief Rodolfo Llanes of the Miami Police stated.

Another 17-year-old was also shot and killed in the exchange, a local Miami drug dealer by the name of Joshua Wright. While a third man, Anthony Rodriguez, was wounded, managing to drive away, but later apprehended at a nearby gas station. The planned robbery by the two Canadian youths simply went awry. The older brother had entered the apartment, while the 15-year-old remained seated in the car until shots were heard and he hurriedly entered the apartment.

Miami-Dade police work at a crime scene in Miami, involving the two teenage sons of Roxanne Dubé, Canada’s counsel general in Miami. A black BMW matching the description of Dubé’s car is seen at right. The photo was taken Monday, March 30, 2015.   AP

The younger brother along with Rodriguez are not known to have actively been involved in the sense that they shot the others in what had been an exchange of fire between Wright and the older Wabafiyebazu brother. But under Florida law anyone participating in a crime leading to murder can be charged with that murder, irrespective of whether they were responsible for the death. 

Moreover, prosecutors are weighing whether to charge the 15-year-old as an adult, which would make him eligible for the death penalty.

The charge is felony murder.