Cecil Hall, age 36 and of Gulfport, wanted in connection with his uncle’s murder in Slidell was located and arrested in Florida over the weekend.
On the afternoon of November 14, 2025, St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office deputies were dispatched to an apartment on West End Boulevard near Slidell for a welfare check on a 66-year-old man. Responding deputies located the man deceased inside the residence. His vehicle, a black Chevrolet Tahoe, was missing.
Members of the STPSO Major Crimes were called to investigate the suspicious death and learned the last person known to be with the man was his nephew, 36-year-old Cecil Hall of Gulfport, Miss.
With the assistance of the Florida Highway Patrol, the Broward County Sheriff’s Office, and the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office, Hall was located Saturday (November 15, 2025) in the Miami area driving his uncle’s Tahoe. Following a pursuit, which included him ramming a Florida Highway Patrol cruiser and ultimately crashing and flipping the Tahoe, Hall was taken into custody and booked into the Miami Dade County Jail for Aggravated Battery on a Law Enforcement Officer with a Deadly Weapon; Fleeing and Eluding; and Grand Theft of a Motor Vehicle. A firearm taken from his uncle’s Slidell apartment was recovered inside the Tahoe.
An autopsy was conducted Monday (November 17, 2025), and the St. Tammany Parish Coroner’s Office ruled the death a homicide and identified the deceased as Anthony Oatise, age 66 and a resident of 62200 West End Blvd., Slidell.
The St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office has issued a warrant for Hall’s arrest on charges of First-Degree Murder, Obstruction of Justice, and Theft of a Firearm. He will be booked into the St. Tammany Parish Jail upon his release from Miami-Dade.
***All persons are presumed innocent until proven guilty***
“I would like to first thank the detectives in our Major Crimes Unit who investigated this suspicious death, as well as our law enforcement partners in Florida who assisted in the case. This arrest would not have been possible without their assistance and cooperation,” Sheriff Randy Smith said.
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