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Florida Teens to be Tried as Adults for Luring Classmate to Shooting Death | Crime Alert 6AM 12.26.25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert hourly update, breaking crime news Now. I'm Sydney
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  Speaker 1: Sumner To Florida teens were indicted Friday in connection with
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  Speaker 1: the death of Dana Katroy, a fourteen year old Pace
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  Speaker 1: girl found murdered earlier this month. Gabriel william sixteen, and
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  Speaker 1: Kamari Blevins, fourteen, are facing first degree premeditated murder charges
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  Speaker 1: for the death of Danic Katroit, fourteen, who had been
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  Speaker 1: shot multiple times.
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  Speaker 2: Deputies in Pace responded to a dead body call off
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  Speaker 2: of Kimberly Road. They developed two suspects, one a fourteen
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  Speaker 2: year old boy and another one a sixteen year old boy.
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  Speaker 2: The sixteen year old boy, Gabriel Williams, stole his mother's
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  Speaker 2: handgun and shot Danica Troy. Kamari Blevins is the fourteen
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  Speaker 2: year old. They're being held on first degree premeditated murder charges.
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  Speaker 2: And here's where it even gets worse. It's bad enough
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  Speaker 2: you kill a fourteen year old, you're fourteen, you're sixteen,
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  Speaker 2: shoot her multiple times, then they set her on fire.
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  Speaker 1: Santa Rosa Sheriff Bob Johnson says the defendants lured Danica
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  Speaker 1: to a wooded area, shot her, doused her body with
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  Speaker 1: gasoline and set her on fire.
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  Speaker 3: We do know that she had a crush on the
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  Speaker 3: sixteen year old boy, and we believe that's why she
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  Speaker 3: went out into the woods with them. She had no
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  Speaker 3: idea she was going to be murdered, obviously.
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  Speaker 1: Danica's mother reported her missing after the team vanished with
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  Speaker 1: her scooter, while she had been reported as a runaway
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  Speaker 1: on December first. Her burned body was discovered in paced
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  Speaker 1: the following day. A witness reportedly claims Levin said the
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  Speaker 1: initial plan was to shoot Danica. Once that Gabriel continued
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  Speaker 1: to shoot, they then burned Danica's body and left the area.
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  Speaker 1: Investigators are still trying to determine the motive behind the killing,
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  Speaker 1: unconvinced that the shooting stemmed from a fight over social media,
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  Speaker 1: where Danica called one of the suspects a worthless gangbanger.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, if you call somebody a name in eighth grade,
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  Speaker 3: how many of name calling fights end up with somebody
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  Speaker 3: being shot and burned to death. It just doesn't add
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  Speaker 3: up to me. There was something else going on, and
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  Speaker 3: we don't know what that is. My detectives interviewed them
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  Speaker 3: both and they stuck with the story of yeah, they
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  Speaker 3: got called a name, so that's why they killed her.
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  Speaker 1: An arraignment for both defendants is scheduled for January eighth.
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  Speaker 1: A reserved police officer and his wife have been arrested
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  Speaker 1: and charged with subjecting their biological and foster children to
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  Speaker 1: cruel and unusual punishment. Matthew and Cassandra Boatwright, thirty four
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  Speaker 1: and thirty two, have each been charged with six counts
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  Speaker 1: of second degree child abuse, four counts of strangulation, and
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  Speaker 1: two counts of domestic violence. Matthew Boatwright faces an additional
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  Speaker 1: domestic violence charge, along with two counts of assault with
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  Speaker 1: the weapon and one count of felony firearm. Boatwright was
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  Speaker 1: immediately relieved of his duties by the Quincy Police Department,
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  Speaker 1: where he served as a reserve officer. Cassandra Boatwright was
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  Speaker 1: also put on leave from her job as a Quincy
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  Speaker 1: school's bus driver. Seven children were involved, two of them
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  Speaker 1: foster placements, one under Matthew boat Right's guard ship, and
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  Speaker 1: the remaining four the couple's biological or step children. All
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  Speaker 1: seven between the ages of seven and fifteen, have been
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  Speaker 1: taken into state custody. According to a probable cause statement.
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  Speaker 1: The children told investigators they were forced to drink dish
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  Speaker 1: soap mixed with water. They were hit with a leather
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  Speaker 1: belt and a board as punishment, and they were frequently
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  Speaker 1: handcuffed behind their backs and forced to sit for long
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  Speaker 1: stretches of time. Four of the children said both parents
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  Speaker 1: choked them. Two of the foster children reported that Matthew
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  Speaker 1: Boatwright lifted one of them by his neck and pinned
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  Speaker 1: into a bathroom wall while pointing a gun at his head.
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  Speaker 1: He also pointed the gun at several young foster children
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  Speaker 1: during the same incident. Investigators found three unsecured and unregistered
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  Speaker 1: guns at the Boatwright residents, along with a board, belt
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  Speaker 1: and handcuffs. The couple was arraigned and ordered held on
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  Speaker 1: two hundred thousand dollars bonds. If they do post bond,
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  Speaker 1: they are not allowed contact with the children involved in
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  Speaker 1: the abuse and cannot have unsupervised contact with any miners.
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  Speaker 1: A man charged with shooting his grandfather dead two years
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  Speaker 1: ago with the behest of his mother has pleaded guilty
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  Speaker 1: to second degree murder and will testify against the mother.
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  Speaker 1: Jacob campaign in twenty two entered his plea deal last
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  Speaker 1: week an open murder charge along with conspiracy and firearm
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  Speaker 1: charges were dismissed. Campaign and his mother, Margaret CampaignOn, left
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  Speaker 1: home on December seventh in Minnesota, heading to the home
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  Speaker 1: of Margaret Campaignon's father in law, eighty seven year old
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  Speaker 1: Alvin campaign In. Margaret Campaignan's husband told police he had
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  Speaker 1: no contact with her and his children after they left,
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  Speaker 1: and that he was concerned they were heading to his
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  Speaker 1: father's house in Wisconsin. He reported a text from his
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  Speaker 1: father that they had arrived, but Alvin campaign didn't reply
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  Speaker 1: any further. Authorities found Alvin dead from a gunshot wound
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  Speaker 1: on December nineteenth, then traced Margaret campaign and her son
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  Speaker 1: via license plate readers, arresting them at a gas station
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  Speaker 1: in Iowa that same day. Margaret and Jake campaign And
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  Speaker 1: claimed that the man they killed was not Alvin. A
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  Speaker 1: search warrant says Jacob told investigators they believed his grandfather
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  Speaker 1: was already dead when they arrived at the house to
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  Speaker 1: seek shelter. Quote Jacob advised that the spirits told him
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  Speaker 1: Grandpa opened the well up behind the house and the
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  Speaker 1: spirits killed him. Margaret campaign And made similar statements, telling
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  Speaker 1: investigators the man they found was able to get up
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  Speaker 1: like a twenty year old and was not her father
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  Speaker 1: in law. The search warrant noted that many of the
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  Speaker 1: claims they made about Alvin were similar to the plot
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  Speaker 1: of the horror movie The Visit. Houghton County Prosecuting Attorney
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  Speaker 1: Dan Helmer says he ultimately agreed to the plea deal
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  Speaker 1: with Jacob after learning Iowa police did not honor his
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  Speaker 1: request for a lawyer during questioning. At his plea hearing,
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  Speaker 1: Jacob campaign and admitted driving to his grandfather's house and
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  Speaker 1: shooting him, then shooting him again at his mother's encouragement.
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  Speaker 1: His sentencing has not been scheduled, and he will testify
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  Speaker 1: against his mother when her trial begins next year. For
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