This story contains details of sexual violence involving minors.
Three boys were indicted on adult charges Wednesday following a violent sexual assault on a 12 year old girl at a Miami community garden last summer. Nelson Nunez, 13, Jusiah Jones, 12, and Xavier Tyson, 15, face multiple felony charges after a grand jury determined the case warranted prosecution in adult court rather than the juvenile justice system.
Miami police initially arrested the boys on juvenile charges the day after the June 18, 2025 incident at The Green Haven Project community garden located at 1160 Northwest Second Avenue near Frederick Douglass Elementary School in the Overtown neighborhood. The suspects were booked into the Metrowest Detention Center on Thursday, and Jones and Nunez appeared in adult bond court Friday where a judge ordered them held without bond…