The victim was found hacked to pieces and buried in a shallow grave in a wooded area of Homestead, Fla. The defendant was indicted when she was 18 and questioned when she was 19 over the June 2015 slaying of 17-year-old Jose Amaya Guardado. “I did not kill that boy, I promise!” Desiray Strickland, 25, shouted at her interrogator in Miami-Dade County back in November 2016. An attorney listed for Arbelo didn’t return calls or emails.Īttempts by The Associated Press to reach family members of the suspects have been unsuccessful.Īssociated Press writer David Fischer in Miami contributed to this report.A Florida woman who previously and fervently insisted upon her innocence after being charged with the murder of a teenager in 2015, when she was still herself a teenager, has decided to plead guilty, according to her lawyer. An attorney listed for Colon and Strickland said he had withdrawn from the case, and it wasn’t immediately clear if replacements had been assigned. An attorney for Lucas said he couldn’t comment on the case. Strickland was charged Wednesday, while Arbelo, Lucas and Colon were arrested last week. The suspects cleaned up the scene, burned the victim’s belonging and their own clothes and got rid of the weapon, authorities said. Strickland and another suspect stayed behind after the killing to have sex, it added. The suspects then pushed Amaya Guardado into the grave and buried him, according to the report. That’s when police say Arbelo struck Amaya Guardado several more times with the machete until his face caved in. The school is located in a remote area of Miami-Dade and is surrounded by wooded areas, with small roads leading into the woods but nowhere else.Īccording to the report, Amaya Guardado was ordered to lie in the shallow grave after the initial attack, but he made one last attempt to fight off the assailants. In the arrest report, police said Strickland complained about missing the start of the beating because she walked away to urinate in the woods.
In a statement released Wednesday, a Labor Department spokesman said security is their top priority. Department of Labor wasn’t immediately returned. “They don’t show you the ugly.”Ī telephone message left late Friday with the U.S. “When you go there, they only show you the good,” Santos Amaya said of the school, speaking in Spanish. The parents said they believe the suspects had been bullying the younger, bespectacled boy and taking money from him before his death. That’s where Amaya Guardado was hacked to death with a machete and left in a shallow grave that the suspects had dug in advance, police said.Īmaya Guardado’s parents said he was a quiet boy who kept to himself for the most part and never bothered anyone. The report accuses them of luring Amaya Guardado, 17, to a wooded area near Homestead Job Corps, a live-in school and vocational training program for at-risk students run by the U.S. Detectives said they’re expecting to make a fifth arrest.Īccording to an arrest report, the suspects had planned the attack two weeks in advance. Miami-Dade police have charged four of Amaya Guardado’s classmates with second-degree murder: Kaheem Arbelo, 20 Jonathan Lucas, 18 Christian Colon, 19 and Desiray Strickland, 18. “I never imagined they would do something like that to my son here.” “I brought my son from there because they were killing people,” Lucia Guardado said, in Spanish, at the family’s south Miami-Dade home. But now his family is mourning his death in what police describe as a brutal machete attack. (AP) - Jose Amaya Guardado’s mother said she brought her son to the United States nine years ago to escape the violence rampant in their native El Salvador.
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