Florida man shot, killed teen roommate after being asked to move out, deputies say

ORLANDO, Fla. - The Seminole County Sheriff’s Office has arrested two men who have been identified as suspects in the murder of a 17-year-old Winter Park resident.

Conrad Holaway was found deceased inside his home on Zelina Point by family members last month. The family members reported hearing multiple gunshots around 3 a.m. on the morning of Dec. 19. Later in the day, upon checking on Holaway, they found him unresponsive in his bedroom and called 911.

Detectives said they later learned that one of Holaway's friends, Alan Javon Morris, 19, of Orlando, had been staying at the home temporarily for several weeks. They said a series of disagreements between Holaway and Morris unfolded in the days following Morris being told to move out of the house. Detectives said Morris returned to the house on Dec. 19 and shot Holaway multiple times through a window.

"The last 30 days has been really, really hard to, uh, to feel safe in our home," said Delina Davis, Conrad's mother.

On Friday, Jan. 12, detectives executed an arrest on Morris based on an active warrant for one count of first-degree premeditated murder. 

"He called me ‘Mom.’ He lived here. He wore Conrad's clothes. He laid in the spot where I found Conrad," Davis said of Morris. "Against my better judgment, I let him stay because I knew he had nowhere else to go."

Davis said Morris spent Thanksgiving with them and helped decorate their Christmas tree. She said she had also been taking him around to look for a job. She said they had given Morris until Dec. 14 before he had to move out of the home. Then, on Dec. 19, she said the unthinkable happened.

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"They took away all those firsts for him. Now, he never got a driver's license and will never get to graduate," she said. "I never in my wildest dreams would have imagined that this would have happened."

Morris faces additional charges of two counts of lewd and lascivious battery on a minor in an unrelated case. He has been booked into the John E. Polk Correctional Facility with a no-bond status.

Detectives said another man, Isaiah Allen Crisp, has also been charged and arrested in connection with the homicide and is also facing first-degree premeditated murder with no bond set. No other details were released regarding Crisp's alleged involvement in Holoway's death.

Meanwhile, a mother is left mourning the loss of her son.

"Conrad would do anything for anybody. He'd give the shirt off his back and never expected anything in return," Davis said. "There's just a huge hole in my heart and nothing can ever fill that because there's no bringing him back."