Florida mom says teens ‘lured’ 14-year-old daughter into woods before shooting, setting her on fire: report

The parent of murdered Florida teen Danika Troy says her 14-year-old girl was lured into the woods by 1 of the boys present charged with sidesplitting her, a teen she believed had romanticist feelings for her.

In an interrogation with the New York Post, Ashley Troy said 16-year-old Gabriel Williams "pretended to person feelings for her," starring Danika to spot him capable to travel him into the wooded way wherever she was ambushed. 

"That’s however she was lured," she said.

Williams and 14-year-old Kimahri Blevins person some been charged with first-degree premeditated execution successful Danika’s death.

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The ma of Danika Troy, a 14-year-old Florida teenager, says she believes her girl was lured into the woods by Gabriel Williams, who allegedly pretended to person romanticist feelings earlier the miss was murdered. (GoFundMe)

Ashley said she is inactive hopeless for answers. "I inactive request answers. I’m conscionable near asking why," she told the outlet. "She conscionable wanted to beryllium successful love."

Danika was reported missing by her parent connected Dec. 1. The adjacent day, a passerby discovered her assemblage successful a wooded country successful Pace, a assemblage successful Florida’s Panhandle. Investigators said she had been changeable aggregate times and acceptable connected fire.

Authorities rapidly identified the alleged killers, 2 teens who knew Danika from school, and took them into custody.

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Authorities said 2 teenagers are facing execution charges successful the decease of 14-year-old Danika Troy, who was recovered changeable to decease and burned successful a wooded country successful Florida aft being reported missing. (Santa Rosa County Sheriff's Office)

Detectives initially believed the execution whitethorn person stemmed from a social-media quality implicit Thanksgiving break. According to the sheriff’s office, the boys claimed they targeted Danika due to the fact that she had blocked Blevins connected societal media and called Williams "worthless and a pack banger."

Ashley rejected that narrative. "What those boys said is an excuse," she told the Post.

Santa Rosa County Sheriff Bob Johnson confirmed Thursday that Danika’s assemblage had been positively identified and said investigators rapidly zeroed successful connected Williams and Blevins. Both suspects had anterior "run-ins" with instrumentality enforcement, helium said, though details were not released due to the fact that of their ages.

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Santa Rosa County Sheriff Bob Johnson told reporters that the suspects were supposedly friends with the unfortunate from school. He said investigators were inactive moving to find a motive. (Santa Rosa County Sheriff's Office)

Johnson described the sidesplitting successful stark terms. 

"This is wherever it gets truly horrific," helium said, explaining that Williams allegedly stole his mother’s handgun earlier shooting Danika. "It’s atrocious capable you termination a 14-year-old. You’re 14. You’re 16. Shoot her aggregate times, and past they acceptable her connected fire."

The motive for the sidesplitting remains unclear. Johnson said the explanations the teens offered "don’t acceptable the forensics oregon immoderate facts of the case," adding, "so we don’t person a legit motive."

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Both suspects stay held without enslaved astatine the Department of Juvenile Justice connected first-degree execution charges. Prosecutors are coordinating with investigators arsenic they find whether the teens volition beryllium charged arsenic adults.

"If you bash an big crime, you gotta bash big time," Johnson said.

Ashley antecedently said she believes "evil influence" played a relation successful her daughter’s killing, but she wants accountability. She said she wants "nothing little than for them to beryllium prosecuted to the afloat grade of the law."

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Fox News Digital reached retired to the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office for comment, but did not instantly person a response. 

Fox News Digital’s Stephen Sorace contributed to this report.

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