‘I need him to wake up': New video shows moments after teen stabbed boyfriend to death in Miami

New police body camera video shows a teen girl speaking with officers after she fatally stabbed her boyfriend in Miami back in 2024.

Jahara Malik, 18, was sentenced to 17 years in prison last week after pleading guilty in the Dec. 20, 2024 stabbing death of 17-year-old Yahkeim Lollar.

Malik was 17 at the time of the stabbing but was charged as an adult. She pleaded guilty to a manslaughter charge back in March without a plea deal and let a judge decide her fate.

Lollar, also known to family and friends as “Keimo,” died after being stabbed in the garage of their apartment building near Northwest 6th Court and 61st Street.

Surveillance video from inside the garage showed the two teens in the garage before the stabbing and the moments after the stabbing as well as police responding to the scene.

The bodycam footage shows officers speaking with Malik, who appears to have blood on her hands.

“We was just over here fighting and then…,” she says

“So you guys were arguing?” an officer asks.

“Yes, well we wasn’t arguing, we was just like play fighting and stuff and that’s when he was making me mad and that’s when I had the knife right here and he ended up running to it, but I’m not thinking because he already knew I had it, he was trying to get it from me but he ended up running to it,” Malik said. “I can’t go to jail…I need him to wake up.”

Lollar’s family has been vocal since the beginning and held protests outside the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office, demanding accountability. Their calls for justice eventually led prosecutors to file charges against Malik more than a month after the killing.

A junior at Miami Northwestern Senior High School, Lollar was described as being devoted to his family. He loved playing football and video games and dreamed of a career in finance, his mother said.