August 20, 2015

Four Florida students hack boy, 17, with machete, bury him alive before two have sex near murder scene

Desiray Strickland (L) and Christian Colon (R) were charged with second-degree murder.

Four Florida students hacked a 17-year-old boy with a machete and buried him alive before two of the killers celebrated by having sex near the murder scene, police said.
Desiray Strickland, 18, was arrested Wednesday, becoming the fourth charged in the gruesome slaughter of Jose Amaya Guardado on June 28, Miami-Dade police said.
Kaheem Arbelo, 20, Jonathan Lucas, 18, and Christian Colon, 19, were arrested and confessed to the crime last week, police said.
The twisted friend group plotted for two weeks, even digging the grave and hiding a machete beforehand in a wooded area near the Homestead Job Corps campus, where all five students lived about 35 miles south of Miami, according to an arrest report obtained by the Miami Herald.
On June 28, the disturbed teens lured Guardado to the woods after the unsuspecting teen asked permission from the school to leave campus to buy food, police said.
Arbelo, Lucas and Colon then ambushed Guardado, striking him with the machete and causing massive injuries, police said.
Outnumbered, Guardado tried to stop the murder, but the sick sadists kept going.

Jose Amaya Guardado, 17, was a shy boy who helped his parents on weekends.

The victim made one last attempt to fight off the attackers," a detective wrote, "at which time, struck the victim with the machete several more times until the victim's face caved in.
They burned their clothes and Guardado's belongings.
As Lucas and Colon headed back to campus, Strickland and Arbelo stayed behind to have sex, police said.
His body was discovered three days later by his brothers, who had desperately searched for him after he was reported missing.
They first saw two feet in a burned area and called police, who extricated the body.
"The body was unrecognizible and decomposed," cousin Ana Morales wrote on a family fundraising page.
"His brothers could not resist to see the body.

Jonathan Lucas (L) and Kaheem Arbelo (R) confessed to slaying Jose Guardado, police said.

Arbelo, Lucas and Colon confessed on video to the killings, but Strickland was not so cooperative, police said.
She shoved and head-butted a detective before getting shackled in the interview room, police said.
All four sickos have been charged with second-degree murder, police said.
Strickland also faces resisting an officer with violence, battery of an officer and criminal mischief.
Guardado, the son of immigrants, sold ice cream on the weekends to help make ends meet.
He was a "Peaceful young man and he was fun with his friends," Morales wrote.
He was shy, which some people took as "Antisocial." "A crime is bad, but what Jose suffered was horrible,.

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