Police have arrested a 21-year-old man in the 2024 shooting death of a popular North Miami Beach barber, a development that came more than a year after the crime, following new information from a witness who said fear kept her silent for months.
Ryan Sutton, 21, is charged with second-degree murder in the death of Wilton Mena, who was killed in the early morning hours of Oct. 1, 2024. Investigators had little information until the witness recently came forward and described what led up to the shooting.
Inside Mena’s barber shop, his chair still sits empty, serving as a daily reminder for friends and longtime customers of the man they lost…