Surveillance shows suspect walking with locksmith before his murder in West Miami

Surveillance footage captured the moments before a locksmith was shot to death while on the job in West Miami last week.

Luis David Lemus, 32, was charged with second-degree murder in the killing of Adrian Venereo on Friday at an apartment building on Southwest 8th Street.

In the surveillance, Lemus is in a white jersey, walking with Venereo, who is rolling a toolbox behind him.

According to the arrest report, the victim was going to Lemus’s home after he and his father got locked out of their place.

While Venereo was working to change the locks, Lemus allegedly pulled out a gun and shot him in the head before running away.

The suspect’s father is heard screaming after it happened, with blood on his arms and hands.

“Why would you do that?” he screams.

When the police arrived at the scene, the victim was dead on the floor, in the hallway of the seventh floor.

Nicole Galvis, Venereo’s husband, said she came to the scene when she didn’t hear from her husband.

“I just felt something was wrong, and when I showed up, I saw all the crime scene and the police,” she said. “They don’t know why he did it, he was just working.”

Lemus, who appeared in court virtually from his jail cell, was seen on video lying down on a bed and pulling a blanket over himself. He didn’t answer any questions.

Prosecutors said he confessed to the crime.