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00:00Video captured when two men with guns pulled up on 21-year-old Malcolm Johnson Jr. to steal his gold necklace.
00:07As one man fought the victim, the other appeared to pick up the victim's items from the floor.
00:13The robbery turned to murder when the thieves started shooting.
00:16The victim collapsed as the killers drove away.
00:19Who is in this picture? Who is depicted in this picture?
00:23Follow Marcus. And that is the picture matching the description of the victim's evalcance.
00:28Marcus Ely is in jail for allegedly killing over this gold necklace that police say he took home to his girlfriend to snap selfies.
00:37Pictures showed the two posing with the piece of jewelry just hours after the real owner's life was cut short.
00:43You have one assumption on top of another assumption on top of another assumption in this case.
00:48You have a flip is what you have. That's really what this case is about.
00:54Today, Ely's attorney slammed the state attorney's case as weak and requested his client get house arrest to wait for trial.
01:02But prosecutors were against any form of release out of jail since they are confident Ely is a killer,
01:08especially since the second man seen on video took a 20-year prison deal and flipped on his co-defendant.
01:15Defendant agrees that he is willing to testify in open court against Marcus Ely required by the court of the state,
01:22including testifying that Marcus Ely fired the gun to murder victim Malcolm Avery Johnson Jr.
01:28Mario Fogler told police Ely was the shooter.
01:31Additionally, Ely's brother called police to confess he recognized the man on the surveillance video as one of his own.
01:38I can't in any good conscience say that it would be safe for the community to return this defendant to his home
01:45where the law enforcement has gone to the expense of putting a pole cam to observe what's going on.
01:50And at the end of today's hearing, the judge denied granting him a bond.
01:54She felt the community would be a lot safer with him behind bars,
01:58especially since police were already surveying his house through a secret camera.
02:02Before this chain murder even happened, Ely has pleaded not guilty.
02:06In Miami, Christian Cologne, NBC6 News.