A potential “undiscovered serial killer” has been arrested in Port St. Lucie. Here’s what we know

This was reported by the Port St. Lucie police Wednesday arrest 18-year-old Omarion Daytron Ivory, who was involved in the killing in September.

Here’s what you need to know about the murder and arrest:

“Unrecognized Serial Killer” Port St. Lucie police announce arrest in homicide

• How was Ivory arrested?: Video surveillance and blood on the hammer helped investigators link Ivory to the slaying of 67-year-old Francis Devon Gennas. He was arrested Wednesday after investigators learned Tuesday that Gennassi’s DNA was found on the head and handle of a hammer investigators recovered from Ivory, which had his DNA on the handle.

• How were the police able to identify him?: A detective watching the video on his desk noticed a call on the computer dispatch system on Sept. 20 about a man who matched the description of the man in the video trying to break into another home, Niemczyk said.

• The woman told investigators that a “suspicious male” knocked on her door, looking out the window and holding a hammer. Ivory confirmed that he had the hammer in his backpack when he was found on his bicycle in the area.

• What are the charges against him?: Ivory was charged with first-degree murder with a weapon and armed robbery of a residence in the beating death of Gennassi, who was was found on September 12 in his house in the 1000 block of Southeast Albatross Avenue.

• “Unrecognized Serial Killer” Officials said patterns on Ivory’s shoes were “very similar” to shoe prints at the scene of the murder. On October 18, a crime scene officer reported that a partial fingerprint on a knife placed on a pillow in the master bedroom at the scene of the murder came from Ivory.

• “All the evidence leads us to believe that Mr. Ivory was probably preparing to commit a second murder that day,” Assistant Chief Leo Niemczyk said. “Maybe we had an undetected serial killer.”

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