A “beef” between men in Florida allegedly led to a “drive-by” shooting at a park that left a 3-year-old boy who was at a kid’s birthday party dead, cops say. More than 20 shots were allegedly fired at a “patron” at the party, which had a “Sesame Street” theme.

Fort Lauderdale police announced Thursday that they had completed the investigation of Rylo Yancy’s July 2024 shooting death and taken all suspects involved into custody on murder charges, according to a press release.

One of the suspects, Andrew St. Louis, appeared in court Saturday after being captured in Tennessee. He is charged with first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, and conspiracy to commit murder with a firearm.

Co-suspects Tommie Allen, 19, Antonio Carter, 20, and Tyler Hollins, 21, are also facing the same charges for the Rylo’s murder. A fifth suspect, Thaddeus Squire III, was also arrested in connection with the shooting and charged with accessory after the fact.

The shooting unfolded at around 4:30 p.m. during a birthday party at Riverland Park located at 950 SW 27th Avenue in Fort Lauderdale, according to police. Over 20 shots were fired at people attending the birthday party. Investigators identified two vehicles involved, a 2022 red Mercedes Benz sedan and a 2017 black Mercedes Benz sedan.

Squire told cops in interviews that he was driving one of the two cars and that Hollins was with him, according to court depositions provided by police. A witness who allegedly met up with the pair earlier in the day also confirmed this, per the court documents.

Squire claimed Hollins, who is also known as “Freak” or “T-Freak,” was the “trigger person” in his car “at the time that they did the drive-by at the park, and ultimately … the murder of RY,” according to court documents. Police say Squire told investigators “the path that they took in the park” and what transpired beforehand, as did the female witness.

“[The suspects] in the red Mercedes, they had a gun,” the female witness alleged in a July 8 Zoom deposition. “They were like flashing the gun, making jokes. ‘Oh. I’ll shoot you.’ And I felt, like, a little bit uncomfortable.”

The woman claimed Hollins was “waving a firearm” as well and “talking to the people in the red car, making jokes about shooting each other,” according to court documents. Squire told police that he and Hollins “caught word” that their “opps, aka the opposition,” was present at Riverland Park. The pair allegedly saw one of the men they had beef with “post on Instagram where he was, and that’s why they went there.”

After seeing news reports about the shooting, the girl allegedly messaged Squire about what happened. “I text him, and I was like, ‘What’s going on?'” the woman claimed during her deposition.

“Then he called me and he was like, ‘Oh, okay. I’m just going to like tell you now what happened at the park with the baby’ — this is his words — ‘my dogs did that,'” the woman alleged. “He said that they were trying to get a person, I guess who they had beef with or whatever, and it hit the baby instead of the person who they were trying to get.”

Hollins and Squire were both charged in March. The others were charged this month and accused of being in the other Mercedes.

Rylo’s grandfather, Herrold Pough, told Miami station WPLG, “I can never heal, just when you think you are getting over it the rain comes storming again.”

FLPD Sgt. Don Geiger said last week that the “beef” stemmed from an argument and “a patron at the party” was being targeted by the group.

“Because of the acts of these cowards right here, a baby is killed because they had a beef with someone else at the party and they couldn’t control their anger,” Geiger said.