BCSO GAMEOVER Task Force Arrests Man in Connection With Homicide of 15-Year-Old Ka’Ryah Duncan
By Wayne Ivey, Brevard Sheriff // November 6, 2025
Message from Sheriff Wayne Ivey
BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – Last night, our GAMEOVER Task Force Agents located and arrested 20-year-old Xazavier Butler in connection with the homicide of 15-year-old Ka’Ryah Duncan that occurred on October 6.
As you may recall, Deputies and Agents responded to a shooting investigation at Anchors Seafood and Chicken restaurant on Clearlake Road where three victims had been shot during an ambush.
While two male victims were wounded, but survived during the shooting, Duncan subsequently succumbed to her injuries.
Not long after the initial incident, I personally walked Jonterich Smith into the Brevard County Jail on a No Bond warrant for his involvement in the shooting and now, thanks to the great work of our Agents and Crime Scene, Butler is locked up as well on a No Bond warrant.
Butler is charged with First Degree Premeditated Murder, 2 counts of Attempted First Degree Premeditated Murder and Possession of a Firearm by a Delinquent, so hopefully his butt stays locked up for the rest of his life.
There’s no better place for these two than locked behind bars as they clearly have no regard for anyone since they shot into businesses and parked vehicles in the middle of the day and took the life of a 15 year old.
I want to commend the hard work and dedication of our Agents and Crime Scene for getting this guy off our streets and behind bars where he can’t harm anyone else.
If anyone has additional information on this case, please call Crimeline at 800-423-8477(TIPS) or the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office at 321-633-8413.
– Sheriff Wayne Ivey
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The Brevard County Grand Jury has indicted two young men for murder for the Oct. 6 shooting of a 15-year-old girl and two companions outside a Cocoa-area restaurant.
The State Attorney’s Office will prosecute Jonterich L. Smith, 21, and Xazavier E. Butler, 20, for first-degree murder with a firearm for the killing of Ka’Ryah Duncan as she sat in a car outside Anchors Seafood & Chicken on Clearlake Road.
Both defendants also were indicted on two counts of attempted first-degree murder while inflicting great bodily harm for shooting and wounding two 18-year-old men from Palm Bay. The men drove with Duncan to the restaurant where the three were waiting for a food order.
Smith, a Cocoa resident, was arrested Oct. 11 during a traffic stop in Volusia County and remains in the Brevard County Jail with no bond. Butler, from Titusville, remained at large as of Nov. 5
Brevard County Sheriff’s investigators say Smith went to the restaurant for carry-out food and saw the victims, who he knew, in the parking lot. Smith drove away in a Dodge Durango for a few moments, then returned at about 4:30 p.m. and stopped behind the victims’ white sedan, blocking it in.
Smith and Butler then climbed out the driver’s side of the black SUV with assault rifles while a third, not-yet-identified assailant exited the passenger side with a handgun, investigators say. The three fired dozens of rounds at the victims, killing Duncan. Security video recorded the attack.
Besides murder and attempted murder, the Grand Jury indicted Smith for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. It indicted Butler for possession of a firearm by a delinquent, based on convictions while he was a juvenile.
