DAVIE (CBSMiami) — Police have made an arrest in the death of Davie wife and mother Jill Su whose body was found in a bathtub in her home earlier this month. 
 
 Su, 59, had ties to the billion dollar Halliburton oil empire. She was married to renowned University of Florida entomologist Dr. Nan Yao Su. Her death on September 8th drew national attention. 
 
 Watch Peter D’Oench’s report, click here. 
 
 Police identified the man in custody as 20-year old Dayont’e Omar Resiles of Sunrise. He’s been charged with first degree murder. 
 
 “When I saw that on the news, I was very happy,” said Angel Rivera, who became friends with Su when she lived next to his home in Plantation. “I think police did an excellent job.” 
 
 Rivera told CBS4’s Peter D’Oench, “She is an angel and an excellent lady.” 
 
 “It was a burglary,” said Davie Police Dale Engle. Engle said Resiles was tied to the crime through evidence on the scene. 
 
 The crime is unsettling to residents at the gated West Ridge community on Nob Hill Road south of I595. Dive teams had turned up empty handed after searching the lake behind the home and police said the suspect was not seen in surveillance at the gates. 
 
 Lisa Woolhiser,a resident, said “I think people are more worried now. It is nerve wrecking. I don’t know how this person got in. I need identification to get past the gate.” 
 
 Police say Resiles had a history of burglarizing high-end homes. He was most recently arrested in Miramar and charged with burglary, grand theft and possession of burglary tools. 
 
 CBS4 has also learned Resiles was busted for burglary in January in Boca Raton, Police say when he was arrested, he had a laptop, camera, iPad and jewelry with him that had been stolen. 
 
 Capt. Engle said the investigation was not finished. He said often criminals work in pairs and he said police were looking “at everything.” Anyone with new information is urged to call Davie Police or Broward Crime Stoppers at (954) 493-TIPS (8477). 
 
 Su volunteered at Insight For The Blind in Fort Lauderdale. She spent hundreds of hours working there over the past nine years, recording material donated to the blind. 
 
 “This is a family and the people who come here are such special people because they want to do something so wonderful, provide reading material for blind people, I mean that’s a pretty high calling,” said said Harry Sharp of Insight For the Blind. “Jill had that calling and just lived it to the hilt.” 
 
 Sharp also told D’Oench, “I’m relieved that the person who did this awful thing is off the street. I will keep my fingers crossed that they have the right person. And I hope this never happens again. She was such a wonderful person, the type of person who would always walk through the door and say what can I do for you?” 
 
 Watch Joan Murray’s Report 
 
 Su’s daughter Mandy wrote on her Facebook page this week: 
 
 “A hole has been left in my heart. My mom was my best friend and it is hard to imagine my life without her. I never realized the loving support system I had behind me and my family until this week and I would not have made it without every one of you. Nothing is going to make my life feel whole again but it is good to realize how many people I have to lean on. I love you mom, and I will always carry you with me and find strength in remembering your smile and remember that you always believed in everything I did.” 
 
 Amanda Su declined to say anything else when contacted Thursday by CBS4. 
 
 Investigators have worked around the clock to solve the crime. 
 
 Police said a relative found Su’s body. They also confirmed that a glass door was smashed near the pool and items were taken from the home, but not recovered. 
 
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 ||||| The man accused of killing a Davie woman inside a home in an upscale, gated community was ordered held without bond during a first-appearance court hearing on Friday. 
 
 Dayonte'e Omar Resiles and his lawyer, Brian Greenwald, appeared in front of Broward Judge John "Jay" Hurley. 
 
 Resiles on Thursday was charged with murder in connection with the Sept. 8th death of Jill Halliburton Su. 
 
 According to an arrest affidavit filed in the case, Su was found inside her home's bathroom with multiple stab wounds. A knife was found outside the front door of the home, the affidavit said. 
 
 The mysterious death, originally believed to be a suicide, is now classified as a murder. The killer, police said, was a burglar who somehow entered an upscale, gated community and broke into her home on a Monday morning. 
 
 "We cannot say how he got in or out," Davie Police Capt. Dale Engle said Thursday about the WestRidge development a mile south of police headquarters on South Nob Hill Road. 
 
 Sunrise police arrested Resiles, 20, of Lauderdale Lakes, at the Sunrise home of a girlfriend and her mother, Engle said. 
 
 "Evidence that we were able to obtain on scene led us to the arrest of Mr. Resiles, who is being charged with first-degree homicide," Engle said. 
 
 The body of Halliburton Su, 59, was found in the master bathroom of the home where a rear window had been broken, police said. 
 
 Resiles has a record of arrests by police agencies in three counties that date from when he was 14. Nine of those arrests included burglary or theft charges, state records show. 
 
 In January, Boca Raton police said Resiles drove a rented Mercedes-Benz and wore a construction vest when he was seen at a home where there had been a break-in. He was arrested, and police said they found stolen items from the house in the luxury car. 
 
 Resiles' attorney in that case and two others, Brian Frederick Greenwald of Fort Lauderdale, said about his client's arrest on a murder charge, "I'm in shock." 
 
 Halliburton Su shared her home on Southwest 22nd Place with her husband, renowned insect expert Nan-Yao Su, 63, and their son, Justin, 20. The couple also has a daughter, Amanda Su, 24. 
 
 Justin Su picked up his parents at an airport on Sunday afternoon, Sept. 7, after they returned from a trip to Malaysia, Su family attorney Howard Greitzer said. 
 
 Halliburton Su was killed the next day at 11:30 a.m., Engle said. 
 
 "The family wants to thank the Davie police and neighbors and friends for their support and compassion, but they need time to grieve," Greitzer said. "It's been an extremely difficult time for them." 
 
 Halliburton Su loved her butterfly garden, home landscaping and volunteering as a reader for the blind, people who knew her said. 
 
 Though the victim bore the Halliburton name, family members said she was but a distant relative of the founder of the multinational energy corporation, and no heiress to a financial legacy. 
 
 Nan-Yao Su is a professor of entomology at the University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences Research and Education Center in Fort Lauderdale. When the Statue of Liberty had termite problems, Su was called to help. 
 
 He developed, with DowElanco, a termite control product called Sentricon, the university said. Su is also credited with donating $250,000 to establish an endowment for industry colleagues with creative solutions to insect issues. 
 
 Halliburton Su volunteered for nearly a decade at Insight for the Blind, where she read from publications for recordings that are made available to the organization's clients, said Matthew Corey, the organization's president and chief executive officer. 
 
 "Through her friendship with our late founder, Caroline Mansur, Jill came in here in 2005 and read until her last time, in August," Corey said. "She was up to around 1,000 hours of volunteer time. That's a pretty big milestone." 
 
 A memorial was held Sunday at River of Grass Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Davie. 
 
 Davie Police Capt. Engle said the WestRidge neighborhood is "a safe community. Outside of common alarms, there was no crime, not even vehicle break-ins." 
 
 Halliburton Su was the third person murdered in the town this year, and one of those killings was also in a gated community, at an apartment complex, Engle said. 
 
 He praised Sunrise police for arresting Resiles and the Broward County Crime Lab for processing evidence from the crime scene, adding that detectives had not yet submitted all of the evidence for testing. 
 
 "The fact that we have this individual in custody does not end our investigation," Engle said. 
 
 Detectives will also review service companies and vendors in the community. Engle called Halliburton Su's death unusual for the town but would not call it a random attack, "because it's not clear if there was any sort of personal connection. I don't want to discount anybody. We're continuing to look at everything." 
 
 Resiles wore a white jumpsuit when he entered Broward County jail in downtown Fort Lauderdale Thursday because police took his clothes to process for DNA, Engle said. 
 
 Davie Police ask anyone with information to call Detective Paul Williams at 954-693-8303 or Broward County Crime Stoppers at 954-493-8477. 
 
 Staff Researcher Barbara Hijek contributed to this report. 
 
 ltrischitta@tribpub.com, 954-356-4233 or Twitter @LindaTrischitta ||||| NBC 6's Gilma Avalos has the details after Davie Police arrested a man they say killed a woman in her home. (Published Thursday, Sept. 18, 2014) 
 
 Police have arrested a suspected burglar they believe killed a woman found mysteriously dead in her bathtub in an affluent gated community in Davie this month. 
 
 Dayont'e Omar Resiles, 20, is charged with the murder of Jill Su, 59, officials said. He was being questioned at the Davie Police Department early Thursday. 
 
 “Evidence that we were able to obtain on the scene led to the arrest of Mr. Resiles, and he is being charged with first-degree homicide,” said Capt. Dale Engle of Davie Police. “It appears it was a burglary.” 
 
 Su's body was found in a bathtub at her home in the gated community of Westridge near I-595 and Nob Hill Road the afternoon of Sept. 8. A back window was found to have been broken out. It was either a fingerprint or some physical evidence in the house that resulted in Resiles’ arrest. 
 
 Suspect in Custody in Davie Woman's Death 
 
 Davie Police said they have arrested the man who is responsible for killing a woman inside her home and police say, it looks like she died when she stumbled across a burglary in process. NBC 6's Willard Shepard reports. (Published Thursday, Sept. 18, 2014) 
 
 Resiles has a criminal history, including an arrest earlier this year in Boca Raton on charges of burglary of a dwelling, grand theft and resisting arrest without violence. 
 
 Police said the murder was highly unusual for the area, because there is virtually no crime in the neighborhood. 
 
 “We did a calls-for-service check of this neighborhood, and outside of just common alarms, there has been no crime,” Engle said. “We haven’t even had a vehicle burglary in that neighborhood.” 
 
 Engle said police don’t know how Resiles got into the gated community or picked Su’ s home to enter, saying right now it just appears to be random. Three women, including Resiles’ girlfriend, spoke to Davie Police Thursday afternoon and then left the facility. 
 
 Davie Police said more arrests could be made in the Su murder case.
– Authorities have arrested a man in the case of a Halliburton relative found murdered in a bathtub. Police say Dayont'e Omar Resiles broke into Jill Halliburton Su's Florida mansion in a gated community Monday and killed her around 11:30am, the South Florida Sun Sentinel reports. "It appears it was a burglary" but "we cannot say how he got in or out," the Davie police captain said yesterday, per NBC Miami. "Evidence that we were able to obtain on scene led us to the arrest of Mr. Resiles, who is being charged with first-degree homicide." He added the investigation is continuing, however, "because it's not clear if there was any sort of personal connection. I don't want to discount anybody." CBS Miami reports Resiles has a history of breaking into upscale homes but was not seen on surveillance at the community's gate. "It is nerve-racking," says a resident. "I don't know how this person got in." Su and her husband, a prominent insect expert, had returned from a trip to Malaysia just a day before the murder. Their son, Justin, 20, discovered his mother's body in the master bathroom of the home. A glass door had been broken and items were taken; they haven't been recovered. "A hole has been left in my heart," daughter Amanda, 24, wrote on Facebook. "Nothing is going to make my life feel whole again." The Sun Sentinel notes that Su was a distant relative of the founder of the oil services conglomerate and not an heir to any Halliburton fortune.