Family grieves after machete killing of teen as police say attack was planned

[Judi Lynn]

Family grieves after machete killing of teen as police say attack was planned

José Amaya Guardado went missing 28 June and the family says he was bullied

Miami-Dade police have charged four classmates with second-degree murder

Associated Press in Homestead, Florida
Saturday 22 August 2015 11.03 EDT

José Amaya Guardado’s mother said she brought her son to the US nine years ago to escape the violence rampant in their native El Salvador. But now his family is mourning his death in what police describe as a brutal machete attack.

“I brought my son from there because they were killing people,” Lucia Guardado said, in Spanish, at the family’s south Miami-Dade home. “I never imagined they would do something like that to my son here.”

Miami-Dade police have charged four of Amaya Guardado’s classmates with second-degree murder: Kaheem Arbelo, 20; Jonathan Lucas, 18; Christian Colón, 19; and Desiray Strickland, 18. Detectives said they were expecting to make a fifth arrest.

According to an arrest report, the suspects had planned the attack two weeks in advance. 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 US Labor Department.

More:
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/22/family-grieves-machete-killing-florida-teen

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[Judi Lynn]

1. If only someone would have explained to the newcomer parents what kind of school it was.

They were innocents led directly into the heart of darkness since they didn't know the students there were serious problem kids, not simply kids wanting to learn a vocation.

This little boy could have NEVER been prepared for what awaited him.

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