MIAMI — A North Miami-Dade home where a man was shot dead and three others were wounded on Easter Sunday night is owned by a religious organization whose colorful and controversial president also founded the group, “Blacks for Trump.”
Maurice Symonette — a sign-waving fixture often seen behind former president Donald Trump during televised campaign rallies and a former member of notorious Miami cult — has been inviting young people to a 5-acre property dubbed the “Boss Mansion” for more than two decades for monthly parties he told the Miami Herald are intended to promote racial harmony. Neighbors have differing views, complaining of noise and trash in the adjacent waterway.
Reached Monday, Symonette, 62, said there wasn’t supposed to be a party on Easter Sunday and that it apparently happened a few hours after he had told some stragglers to leave. He said he later left himself and wasn’t there when police said the shooting erupted after a fight between two men.
