The heartbroken mom of the Florida teen who was fatally shot and set on hearth says she doesn’t hate the boys accused in her daughter’s ugly killing.
Danika Troy, 14, was killed after she was allegedly lured into the woods in Pace, a part of the Pensacola Metropolitan space, on Tuesday by 14-year-old Kimahri Blevins and 16-year-old Gabriel Williams, the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office stated.
Authorities say the teenagers shot Troy “multiple times” earlier than setting her stays on hearth. Despite the horrific act, the slain teen’s mom says she doesn’t blame the boys charged in her daughter’s killing, however an out of doors “evil influence.”
“She loved them, and they brutally murdered her,” Ashley Troy instructed the New York Post.
“I don’t blame those boys. I blame evil influence. I don’t hate them, I hate what they did to my baby,” she stated, later including, “But I want nothing less than for them to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.”
The grief-stricken mom additionally took to Facebook on Friday, simply three days after her daughter’s killing, to ask buddies to share any pictures they could have of her daughter, the Post stories.
“Please anyone with photos of my Danika… post them here. She never would let me take any of her as a teen,” she wrote.
The three teenagers had been buddies however had a “falling out” over feedback made on social media.
Blevins had instructed investigators he final spoke with Troy over Thanksgiving break, however that they “had a falling out and he blocked her on social media,” and he hadn’t seen or talked to her since.
Meanwhile, Williams reportedly instructed police that “Danika has made hurtful comments to Gabriel about being worthless and a gang-banger, which upset him.”
Sheriff Bob Johnson alleged the teenagers shot Troy “multiple times” earlier than setting her on hearth. Investigators say the weapon used within the ghastly killing was stolen by Williams from his mom.
“There’s not a clear motive, but I can tell you this: we’re going to be hopefully working with the State Attorney’s office to get these individuals charged as adults,” Johnson stated Thursday at a press convention. “You do an adult crime, you need to do adult time. So that’s going to be the next effort we’re putting forth.”
The teenagers have been arrested on first-degree premeditated homicide prices. They are being held on the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice.
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