Insets, left to right: Steven Black (GoFundMe), Warren Pollock (Richmond County Sheriff”s Office), Wanisha Pollock (Broward County Sheriff’s Office). Background: Surveillance footage showing the shooting at Tony’s Market at 800 Northwest 22nd Road in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on March 13, 2022 (WPLG/YouTube)
A man has been arrested for allegedly killing a rival in a Florida convenience store – and the suspect’s sister is accused of being the getaway driver.
Warren Pollock, 24, is accused of murdering Steven Black, 34, in retaliation for an alleged battery that took place the previous day. Pollock’s sister, Wanisha Pollock, 29, has been charged with accessory after the fact.
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On March 13, 2022, at about 6:50 p.m., officers with the Fort Lauderdale Police Department arrived at Tony’s Market at 800 Northwest 22nd Road due to 911 calls about a man being shot. A witness told officers that a suspect shot the victim – later identified as Steven Black – and ran away. She also described the suspect’s features, such as him being about 5-foot-7 and thin, according to a Fort Lauderdale Police Department arrest affidavit for Wanisha Pollock.
The victim was dead, and he was brought to the Broward County Medical Examiner’s Office where an autopsy was done. It was determined that he died due to multiple gunshot wounds and that this was a homicide case.
Surveillance footage from Tony’s Market later showed someone wearing all black – including a hood – walking into the store past Black, who was speaking to people near the exit. Seconds later, the suspect approached Black with a gun raised in the air and fired, the footage showed, per Miami ABC affiliate WPLG. Everyone near the exit ran away, including the suspect.
The documents in the Broward County Clerk of Courts maintain a certain sequence of events that happened next.
The suspect in the shooting – Warren Pollock – ran toward a Nissan Altima and entered via the passenger seat, and the car took off “at a high rate of speed,” the arrest affidavit states. A license plate reader identified the vehicle, and police later found out the car was registered to Wanisha Pollock.
She reportedly declined to speak with police when they approached her, saying she wanted to speak with an attorney first. The investigation continued – and uncovered details from earlier in the day of the shooting suggest why the crime may have occurred.
Police learned that Black was the suspect in a felony battery that took place in Lauderhill, Florida, around 1:30 p.m. Lauderhill is just west of where the shooting took place.
Black is said to have accompanied a friend to where the mother of the friend’s child was staying. Once there, the two parents got into an argument, and Black tried to calm the situation down, the court document states. The mother’s parents also got involved.
“During the chaos, [Black] punched” in the face the father or stepfather of the woman whom they had sought out “and caused serious bodily harm,” the document adds. Black and his friend left, but not before a photo was taken of them – a photo that was then posted to social media.
From 1:48 p.m. of that day until the shooting, the Nissan Altima “drove in front of Tony’s Market more than a dozen times,” police said, citing surveillance footage from outside the convenience store. “It was obvious that the driver of the Nissan Altima was looking for the victim, who was known to frequent Tony’s Market,” the affidavit states.
About five hours later, minutes before the murder, the car parked fewer than 150 feet in front of the store, police said. As such, it was “position[ed] perfectly for a quick getaway.”
The following day, Fort Lauderdale police officers spoke with Lauderhill Police Department officers and learned that the residence where Black allegedly punched the man the prior day had been the subject of several gunshots.
“It is evident that after the felony battery a feud ensued between [the punching victim’s] family and with people related to [Black],” the court document adds. “The homicide of [Black] appeared to be in retaliation for the battery.”
As the investigation went on, detectives ran a background check on Wanisha Pollock and learned that she had a brother named Warren Pollock who was on felony probation for a 2017 conviction of armed robbery and carrying a concealed firearm. He “matches the suspect’s physical description,” police said, pointing to the shooting witness’ earlier testimony.
Shell casings from the shooting at Tony’s Market also matched casings recovered from the scene of an aggravated assault in Miami Gardens on June 13, 2021. At the time of the aggravated assault, the Pollock siblings lived just across the street, police said.
A Miami Gardens Police Department detective stated one of the victims in this crime “told him they felt that the neighbor across the street shot their house. The victim believed that because recently, before their home was shot, the police responded to the neighbor’s house for a disturbance, and the neighbor thought that the victims of the aggravated assault called the police.”
Investigators also obtained Wanisha Pollock’s phone records and found that there was a total of 114 calls between her and the stepson of the victim of the punch “that started the spree of violence” from March 12, 2022 – the day before the alleged murder – until March 21, 2022. On the day of the shooting specifically, Wanisha Pollock was reportedly in contact with this man repeatedly in the hours between the two crimes.
Minutes after the man was punched, Wanisha Pollock called the man’s stepson, per the affidavit. She then called her brother before calling the same man again. About an hour after the punch, she allegedly anonymously called Black’s friend – the man who had a child with the woman whose father or stepfather was punched. She then received a call from the stepson, called her brother, and received two more calls from the stepson all in the three hours after the punch.
Cellphone records from Warren Pollock also revealed he was using his phone all day until about an hour before the alleged murder where it was last located near Tony’s Market. About an hour after the shooting, it was turned back on, with the nearest cell tower being the closest one to his house, per the affidavit.
These leads enabled a search warrant of the house tied to Wanisha Pollock on April 1, 2022. When police arrived and spoke with her, asking who was driving her car on the day of the shooting, she reportedly replied, “I was driving my car. Nobody drives my car.”
Police also maintain – through investigating the gun used in the murder – that it was used to commit multiple armed robberies in Miami Beach the week after the murder. The weapon was recovered from a man investigators were able to tie to Warren Pollock.
Wanisha Pollock was arrested on July 10 and posted a $20,000 bond on Tuesday. She is set to be arraigned on Aug. 11.
Warren Pollock, of Hephzibah, Georgia, was arrested on July 8 in Augusta, Georgia, by the U.S. Marshals Service, Miami NBC affiliate WTVJ reported. He is being held by the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office.
