FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.—A South Florida defendant who once made national news when he escaped by dashing out of a courtroom during a pretrial hearing on murder charges has been convicted of that killing.
Dayonte Resiles, 27, was convicted Friday of first-degree murder for the 2014 stabbing death Jill Halliburton Su at her suburban Fort Lauderdale home. Su was bound at her hands and feet, forced into a bathtub, and stabbed about 25 times during a burglary. Prosecutors said DNA found in the home tied Resiles to the scene.
