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    Michael Shane Bargo, Jr. - Florida Death Row







    MARION COUNTY, Fla. -- An 18-year-old man charged with first-degree murder is facing the death penalty after he was arrested for allegedly killing a 15-year-old boy at a home in Marion County, WFTV learned Thursday morning.

    Michael Baron faced a judge Thursday morning. Baron, along with five other people, was arrested for their alleged role in the brutal slaying of Seath Jackson. According to investigators, Bargo was the mastermind behind the murder plot that happened on Sunday.

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    Judge tells Michael Bargo: 'Potentially, you are facing the death penalty'

    Michael Bargo, who allegedly plotted the fatal group attack on a 15-year-old boy that shocked Central Florida, appeared before a judge today in an orange-and-white jail jumpsuit, downtrodden and on the verge of tears.

    Bargo, 18, barely opened his swollen eyes and lifted his head only slightly as Marion County Circuit Judge Ritter Hoff-Williams read the charges against him — including first-degree murder — for allegedly leading the attack on Seath Tyler Jackson.

    "Potentially, you are facing the death penalty," the judge said.

    His muted reaction was in stark contrast to his swagger as deputies escorted him to jail earlier this week before the public learned how Seath was lured to his death.

    Bargo, along with four others accused of first-degree murder, are being held for their alleged roles in carrying out a deadly encounter he allegedly concocted during which Seath was brutally beaten, shot several times and his body burned to ashes.

    A sixth suspect, James Young Havens III, 37, the stepfather of two teen suspects, is accused of acting as an accessory after the fact and has been released on bond.

    His stepchildren are Amber Wright, 15, and 16-year-old Kyle Hooper. The other suspects are 18-year-old Charlie Kay Ely and 20-year-old Justin Soto.

    Kyle -- in the company of his mother, Tracey Wright -- first told deputies that he saw Bargo shoot Seath.

    He later admitted that he, his sister and friends had planned the crime and lured Seath to his death, according to the Sheriff's Office.

    Hooper told deputies that the plans for the crime began to come together as he, Amber, Bargo, Ely and Soto were at Ely's house on Southeast 53rd Avenue in Summerfield on Sunday.

    After Bargo said how much he hated Seath, the group hatched its plot to lure Seath to the house, according to arrest affidavits filed in the case.

    It's unclear why Bargo so disliked the boy. Seath indicated on his Facebook page that he thought Amber and an older boy he called "Mike" were in a romantic relationship.

    He posted on Facebook earlier this that he loved Amber. But weeks later, they had broken up.

    Friends gathered in front of the home Wednesday evening for a candlelight vigil in Jackson's honor, saying he didn't deserve what happened to him.

    Seath's remains were put into paint buckets and discarded. Some buckets were found in an Ocala lime pit. Authorities were still searching for more remains Thursday.

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    Plot to kill Fla. teen Seath Tyler Jackson hatched in hatred, say police

    OCALA, Fla. (CBS/WKMG/AP) - When Seath Tyler Jackson received a text Sunday afternoon from a 15-year-old ex-girlfriend saying she wanted to rekindle their romance and that they should meet at a central Florida house, a female friend of Seath's sensed something wasn't right.

    Pictures: Six arrested in brutal murder of Fla. boy

    "I wouldn't fall for that," 16-year-old Brittnay Jones told Jackson, she recalled to The Associated Press.

    The 15-year-old Jackson ignored his friend's advice and went Sunday to a house in Summerfield, about 60 miles northwest of Orlando.

    There, authorities said, he was fatally beaten and shot in a plot to lure him there and kill him. Then, Seath's body was stuffed into a sleeping bag and burned, and the remains were put in paint buckets and dumped at a remote lime rock pit, authorities allege.

    According to CBS affiliate WKMG, six people, including the 15-year-old ex-girlfriend and three other teens, were arrested Tuesday in Seath's murder.

    Those arrested include:

    * Michael Bargo, 18, of Summerfield, charged with first-degree murder

    * Charlie Kay Ely, 18, of Summerfield, charged with first-degree murder

    * Amber E. Wright, 15, of Summerfield, charged with first-degree murder

    * Justin Soto, 20, of Summerfield, charged with first-degree murder

    * James Havens III, 37, of Summerfield, charged with accessory after the fact to first-degree murder

    * Kyle Hooper, 16, of Summerfield, charged with first-degree murder

    On Tuesday, a woman told deputies her 16-year-old son had witnessed Seath's slaying in a house in Summerfield, near Ocala.

    Authorities said the teen, who has not been publicly identified, told investigators the group plotted the slaying because Bargo hated Seath.

    Authorities, as well as family and friends, said Bargo was dating Seath's ex-girlfriend and had gotten into a fight with him several weeks ago, WKMG reported.

    Five of the suspects were gathered at the house Sunday "when Michael Bargo began to speak of his hatred for the victim Seath Jackson," authorities wrote the 16-year-old boy told them. "The conversation then turned into a plan to lure Seath to the residence so that Michael Bargo could kill him with the assistance of other persons."

    According to the sheriff's office, Bargo shot Seath several times. When Seath tried to escape, Soto held him down while Bargo continued to shoot him, authorities said. Then, according to the report, Bargo broke the teen's knees and group members hog-tied him and put his body in a sleeping bag, which was placed in a fire pit in the back yard and burned.

    At that point, the sheriff's office said, the group used bleach to clean the house and shoveled Jackson's remains into 5-gallon paint cans.

    Investigators are still searching for a .22-caliber revolver used in the slaying. The sheriff's office said a dive team found three 5-gallon paint buckets Wednesday afternoon in a lime rock pit, and the contents were being tested to confirm that they are Seath's remains.



    Evidence recovered in Seath Tyler Jackson murder investigation


    April 20, 2011

    Six arrested in brutal murder of Fla. boy Seath Tyler Jackson

    OCALA, Fla. (CBS/WKMG) - Six people, including a 15-year-old girl and three other teens, were arrested Tuesday in the murder of 15-year-old Florida boy Seath Tyler Jackson, who was lured to his murder by text message and whose remains were hidden in paint cans, according to the Marion County Sheriff's Office.

    Pictures: Six arrested in brutal murder of Fla. boy

    According to deputies, Jackson was shot multiple times by 18-year-old Michael Bargo, who is charged with first-degree murder, in a house in Summerfield, about 60 miles north of Orlando, reports CBS affiliate WKMG.

    The others arrested were:

    * Charlie Kay Ely, 18, of Summerfield, who is charged with first-degree murder

    * Amber E. Wright, 15, of Summerfield, who is charged with first-degree murder

    * Justin Soto, 20, of Summerfield, who is charged with first-degree murder

    * James Havens III, 37, of Summerfield, who is charged with accessory after the fact to first-degree murder

    * Kyle Hooper, 16, of Summerfield, who is charged with first-degree murder

    Deputies said Hooper, Wright, Ely, Soto and Bargo were involved in the planning and luring of Jackson to the home.

    On Tuesday, a woman told deputies her 16-year-old son had witnessed Jackson's slaying in a house in Summerfield.

    Authorities said the 16-year-old, who is not being identified because of his age, told investigators the group plotted the slaying because Bargo hated Jackson. Authorities say Jackson was lured to the house by a text message.

    Deputies said once Jackson arrived at the house, Ely and Bargo began hitting him in the head with wooden objects.

    According to the sheriff's office, Bargo then shot Jackson several times. When Jackson tried to escape, Soto held him down while Bargo continued to shoot him, authorities said. Then, according to the report, Bargo broke the teen's knees and group members hog-tied him and put his body in a sleeping bag, which was placed in a fire pit in the backyard and burned.

    At that point, the sheriff's office said, the group used bleach to clean the house and shoveled Jackson's remains into 5-gallon paint cans.

    Investigators are still searching for a .22-caliber revolver used in the slaying. The Sheriff's Office said a dive team found three 5-gallon paint buckets Wednesday afternoon in a lime rock pit. The contents of the cans are being tested to determine if they contain Jackson's remains.

    According to the Sheriff's Office, some of the suspects told investigators that Bargo shot Jackson. Bargo was located and arrested in Starke, where he fled to stay with friends, deputies said.

    The Sheriff's Office said it was later discovered that Havens was aware of the plan to kill Jackson and assisted with the disposal of the remains. Also, Havens gave Bargo a ride to Starke in an effort to avoid capture, deputies said.

    All six were being held in the Marion County Jail.

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    Facebook Teen Love Triangle Ends in Brutal Slaying

    On the evening of Sunday, April 17, a group of close teenagers met at a friend's house in the wooded backroads of central Florida as they usually do every evening to chat, flirt, gossip and do drugs. But this night was darker. They planned revenge on a friend’s ex-lover, 15-year-old Seath Jackson.

    The next day, on April 18, one of Jackson's friends, Brittnay Jones noted on her Facebook page that she is in a relationship and expecting a child. She wrote that she was bored but was concerned that no one had heard from Jackson. She pleaded for information on him. “If anyone hears from or sees Seath Tyler Jackson please let me know asap! He is missing and he could be hurt. So please if you hear anything let me know!” The same day she received a reply from “Judd Fore” that her friend had been killed the day before. Finally, on April 20 she posted the following message, “Seath Tyler Jackson you were like my little brother and i love you so much. You were and uhMazing friend and you will never be forgotten ♥”.

    By linking the Facebook pages of Jackson and his friends, a pattern of coarse language, blatant sexual banter, drug use, and violent threats emerged. Jackson and most of his friends are white, but wrote text messages in the style of the hip-hop artists they listened to. They frequently wrote of how bored they were.

    In the months leading to his murder, Seath established an amorous relationship with Amber Wright. He stayed throughout the day and late into the night at different friend's homes smoking marijuana and texting his friends through Facebook about how high he was and invited them to hit him up if they wanted to smoke with him. On March 14 at 9:17pm Jackson wrote, "Chillin at the hous with amber and kyle bored as shit." On March 15 at 9:13pm, "Bored as fuck hared rock this weekend going to fuck some shit up hit me up if you got a bike an wunt to go." On March 21 at 1:40pm, "smokeing on the d nigga you wish culd have this shit." On March 22 at 11:31am, "Chilin at mikes hous bored and wunt to smoke so green."

    In early March, Jackson wrote “damn i all ready miss my bbyg love you amber,” but by the end of the month, things with 15-year-old Amber Wright had soured as she segued into a relationship with another youth. Seath was now an outcast.

    In a cryptic message on March 23, Seath wrote, "Hell naw it ant fuck him nigger we going tp shot thim all one dY or we just going to hang thim like the good old dYs yeah i sed it on favebook fuck niggers go back to whT you wher doing picin cottin.” Seath’s friend, Chelsea Renee’, replied, “what the hell?”

    On March 28, Seath posted that he’s single. Then on March 30 at 10:22pm, he wrote, "have her mike fagggo bitch boy." Sixteen minutes later, Heather Moore asked, "Bargo?" The next day Seath replied, "yeah that pussy lol he wuldint fight me." Moore replied, "I hate that boy. He's a POS."

    Seath’s posts became darker. He spent the next few days getting wasted and on April 7th, ranted on Facedbook, “hello everbody my name is amber wight and i smoke meth everday i love the stuff it makes me jizzzzzzzzz in my pants aka im a slut.”

    Things continue to unravel as Jackson banters about his rage over Amber’s betrayal, knowing she and his former friends will see it. On April 7, Jackson posts about Amber, “shit how she a slut bc she cheated on me the hole fucking time we wher together with some 19 year old tell me that aint some fuck sit rite ther,” while minutes later Haley Kuttner (another Facebook regular) posted, “ Yeah. That is some fuck shit.”

    Amber then accuses Jackson of violence as the schoolyard taunts and hurts fly electronically on the web. She writes in response to Jackson, “See just like i ssaid. Seath stop being childish! And how the fuck did i cheat on yuu the whole time. When i pretty much lived with yuuu when we were together. I was wit yuu 24 fucking 7. So stop tlking shit! Thats all yuu know how to do is get drama started. And how am i a hoe? What bc i dumped yuu bc i got fed up wit yuu throughing me into walls? I was tired of yuu calling me a cunt and a whore everyday? I go tired of yuu treating me like i was nothing! If yuur so fucking perfect why dont yuu get over the jealousy yuu have and get yuurself a new girl yuu can fucking hurt! Bc im sure enough done. Oh and about the cheating thing, yuur the one that fucking cheated on me wit gill the whole time and didnt say anything till hmm 3 fucking moths later. Yuu know i fucking cared deeply about yuu. I stuck wit yuu through a lot of shit. But now yuu wanna sit here and trash tlk me to ppl that dont know me? And the funny thing is yuu know im not a fucking hoe. But yuu continuously have something new to say about me!!”

    But it is in exchanges with friend Justin Brown that violent ideation directed towards Mike Bargo re-emerges. In between the replies of Amber and Seath, Brown posted, “Yu can do better anyways nigga she tryen 2 get wit that fuck boy soft ass bitch,” then later “Hey look yall my dog dont give a fuck about that bitch, And that faggot dude mike she is with needs 2 quit being a scared lil bitch and fight.”

    Jackson writes, “oooooo thats my dogg bro shit its going down fryday if he wunts it or not,” as Brown eggs him on, “Fuck yea steal off on that pussy nigga,” and later, “Nigga is 19 and softer that a motherfucker haha gonna get whopped by my bro who is 14.Yu my nigga man.”

    Over the next few days, Jackson continued to smoke pot, wrote about getting a tattoo, and took an online drug test. “Bored as fuck got to take this test online for my drugg probs this shit sucks.” Seath wrote a final post on Monday, April 11 that said, “shit girl you thank im going to trip over you you got that shit bint all up bc no bitch is wherth tripin over inless you really love that her but you will allways finde someone better.”

    Six days later, Seath’s former friends, Amber Wright and her new boyfriend Mike Bargo, Justin Soto (20), Charlie Ely (18), and Kyle Hooper (16) (who is Amber Wright’s brother) met in the evening at Charlie’s house, which she shared with Bargo and Soto. The discussion quickly turned to Seath Jackson. Bargo, who has a single tattoo teardrop below each eye, spoke about his hatred for Seath. The conversation turned into a plot to kill Seath.

    But before they called Seath, they built a bonfire in the backyard.

    Amber and Charlie called and left repeated text messages for Seath to meet with Amber. They finally met him outside while Bargo and Hooper hid in a spare bedroom. But Amber and Charlie went back into the house without Seath. According to a statement that Hooper gave to the police, Bargo was enraged and demanded that Amber and Charlie bring Seath to the house. Amber then texted Seath on his cellphone who soon arrived.and successfully lured him inside the house so the plan could be carried out.

    When Seath entered the house, Bargo and Hooper immediately exited the room where they were hiding and bum-rushed him. Hooper and Justin Soto struck him with a wooden object. Bargo then brandished a .22 calibre revolver and shot Seath at least four times. Seath tried to flea but Soto tackled and restrained him, then struck him with an axe handle. Bargo told Soto to get out of the way, according to the report, and continued to shoot Jackson.

    They then took his inert body to a bathroom tub. Bargo broke his kneecaps with a metal cylindrical object to be able to put his body into a sleeping bag but at some point they realized that Seath was still alive. Bargo put another bullet into his body, then was able to successfully hog-tie him and stuff him inside a sleeping bag. They then placed Seath onto the fire that was already burning for the purpose of cremating him.

    Amber Wright told police that she helped to clean up the blood in the house with bleach while the body was reduced to ash. Hooper told police that Bargo used a shovel to scrape the ashes out of the fire pit and into several five-gallon paint cans. They then stored the paint cans on the property where Bargo later took them to an abandoned lime quarry.

    Neighbors told a local television station they saw the bonfire and heard the gunshots, but mistook it for ‘kids being kids’ who were playing with firecrackers.

    On April 18th, the day after Seath’s murder, his parents filed a missing-person’s report, explaining that he may have run away. They had no contact with him since the day of his murder.

    The next day, Tracey Wright, Amber’s and Kyle’s mother, took Kyle to the sheriff’s office after Kyle told her he personally witnessed Seath’s murder.

    Police arrested the teens involved, including Amber Wright's and Kyle Hooper’s step-father James Y. Havens III, who confessed to assisting Bargo and Soto in disposing of Jackson's remains, knowing the crime had taken place. The 37-year-old Havens assisted Bargo to escape and was also aware of the teenagers’ conspiracy to kill Jackson.

    Amber Wright, Charlie Kay Ely, Michael S. Bargo, Justin Soto, and Kyle Hooper are charged with first-degree murder. James Havens stands charged with accessory to first-degree murder.

    When Mike Bargo was arrested and brought to jail, he flashed a peace sign to the camera.

    Friends of Seath Jackson are circulating a petition on Facebook calling for the death penalty for those accused of his murder.

    The last post on Seath’s Facebook page came on April 20 by Cindy Mattern, who wrote “Rest in Peace”, four days after his death.

    http://www.speroforum.com/a/52632/Fa...Brutal-Slaying

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    Suspect In Marion Teen Slaying Speaks

    One of the six suspects accused of beating and mutilated Seath Jackson, 15, of Belleview, before burning and dumping his body spoke out in a jailhouse interview on Thursday.

    Charlie Ely said she feels sorry for the victim, and claims she participated in the killing out of fear.

    "They said that I'd be killed and it wasn't just a threat," Ely said. "It was a gun pointed in my face and everything."

    On the Thursday, the accused mastermind of the slaying appeared in court. A judge denied bond for Michael Bargo, 18, who authorities said was the mastermind behind the crime.

    "I hope they get the electric chair and burn," said Billie Thorington, a mother of Jackson's friend. "We can all sit and watch them."

    Thorington voiced what she felt should happen to the six Summerfield residents who were charged with the slaying of Jackson on Sunday.

    "Potentially, you are facing the death penalty," a judge said on Thursday. "Do you have an attorney?"

    Bargo faced the judge with gashes on his eye and forehead. Investigators told WESH 2 News that he had the cuts when they arrested him.

    The victim's ex-girlfriend, Amber Wright, 15, who is a ninth-grader at Belleview High School; her brother, Kyle Hooper, 16; and their stepfather, James Havens, 47, were also arrested and face first-degree murder charges, as well as Charlie Ely, 18; and Justin Soto, 20.

    The suspects told police that the victim tried to run from the home after Bargo shot him and was still alive, even after the group dragged him into a bathtub and broke his knee caps to stuff him in a sleeping bag.

    Friends said they believe he fought for his life.

    "Seath was a fighter," said friend Stephen Connolly. "I hope Seath messed them all up."

    Wright and her brother remain in juvenile detention. Their stepfather, accused of helping to cover up the crime, has been released on bond.

    The four suspects, all charged as adults, will be back in court on May 24.

    "At this point, we feel we've made all the arrests necessary," Marion County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Rhonda Stoup said. "If more information comes forth, we'll take appropriate action."

    Jackson was killed inside a home on Southeast 53rd Street in Summerfield. Investigators said he was lured to the house and hit on the head with a wooden object before being shot multiple times and placed in a sleeping bag and burned in a fire pit.

    Authorities said his remains were placed in three five-gallon paint containers, which have been recovered and were sent to the University of Florida for analysis.

    "We haven't found the weapon at this point," Stoup said. "We are following some leads. We do believe we may know where it's at."

    Bargo and Soto, the teen accused of grabbing Jackson as he tried to run, were placed on suicide watch at the jail.

    "Maybe he wants to actually die so he doesn't have to remember anything," said Jackson's friend Casey Sudberry.

    The judge also ruled Bargo should have no contact with the other defendants.

    http://www.wesh.com/news/27636557/detail.html

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    Saturday funeral planned for murdered Marion County teenager

    OCALA -- A funeral for the 15-year-old who was beaten and murdered last weekend in Summerfield will be held Saturday.

    A service for Seath Jackson has been scheduled for 4 p.m. at First Baptist Church of Summerfield on 14550 SE 65th Court.

    Prosecutors said they have not decided whether to seek the death penalty against five of six suspects arrested in the brutal beating and murder.

    On Thursday, investigators in Marion County served a search warrant at the home of Michael Bargo, the alleged ringleader in the attack. But they did not immediately reveal what they found.

    Bargo and four of the other suspects, ranging in age from 15 to 20, were charged with first-degree murder. The sixth suspect, James Havens, 37, who is accused of helping hide the body, bonded out of jail Wednesday.

    Investigators spent hours Thursday at the home where Jackson was murdered, looking for DNA evidence and any weapons.

    Deputies said the suspects lured Jackson to the home Sunday, where he was beaten, shot and burned in a fire pit. His remains were found Tuesday, hidden inside several paint cans.

    Investigators said the suspects sought revenge after Jackson allegedly hit Amber Wright, his ex-girlfriend and a friend of Bargo's.

    "That's hard to believe, isn't it, that you could get five people together who think that's a good idea?" said Detective Rhonda Stroup, with the Marion County Sheriff's Office. "Its still unbelievable to me. I'm still trying to deal with it, myself."

    Bargo was denied bond Thursday. A judge also ordered him not to have any contact with the other suspects.

    Timeline of Events

    Sunday, APRIL 17 -- Michael Bargo allegedly began making plans to lure Seath Jackson to Charlie Ely's home. Investigators said both Ely and Amber Wright lured Jackson there.

    Monday, APRIL 18 -- Seath Jackson reported missing by his parents.

    Tuesday, APRIL 19 -- Tracey Wright, mother of Kyle Hooper, told Marion County deputies her son witnessed Michael Bargo shoot Seath Jackson at Charlie Ely's home. Six suspects were arrested later that day.

    Wednesday, APRIL 20 -- James Havens, accused of helping hide the body, posted $10,000 bond. He said he thought the whole thing was just a joke.

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    Saturday funeral planned for murdered Marion County teenager

    A memorial for the 15-year-old who was beaten and murdered last weekend in Summerfield was held Saturday.

    A service for Seath Jackson was held at 4 p.m. at First Baptist Church of Summerfield.

    The Pastor compared the brutal killing of Seath Jackson by a group of his peers to that of Jesus himself a few days before Easter, but said just as Jesus rose again so will this community.

    Teens made up a majority of the mourners at the church, many wearing t-shirts with Jackson's picture, and the letters R.I.P written on their bodies or even shaved into their heads.

    Some mourners admitted to being friends with the alleged ring leader Michael Bargo, and not knowing Jackson, but wanted to come to pay their respects.

    Those who knew Jackson, said they had no idea of the complicated relationship with ex-girlfriend Amber Wright.

    "It's sad how somebody would get that mad over a girl and do something like that, it's just unbelievable," said mourner Tyrone Morman.

    Prosecutors said they have not decided whether to seek the death penalty against five of six suspects arrested in the brutal beating and murder.

    On Thursday, investigators in Marion County served a search warrant at the home of Michael Bargo, the alleged ringleader in the attack. But they did not immediately reveal what they found.

    Bargo and four of the other suspects, ranging in age from 15 to 20, were charged with first-degree murder. The sixth suspect, James Havens, 37, who is accused of helping hide the body, bonded out of jail Wednesday.

    Investigators spent hours Thursday at the home where Jackson was murdered, looking for DNA evidence and any weapons.

    Deputies said the suspects lured Jackson to the home Sunday, where he was beaten, shot and burned in a fire pit. His remains were found Tuesday, hidden inside several paint cans.

    Investigators said the suspects sought revenge after Jackson allegedly hit Amber Wright, his ex-girlfriend and a friend of Bargo's.

    "That's hard to believe, isn't it, that you could get five people together who think that's a good idea?" said Detective Rhonda Stroup, with the Marion County Sheriff's Office. "Its still unbelievable to me. I'm still trying to deal with it, myself."

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    Stephan Jackson, right, brother to murder victim Seath Jackson, gets a comforting hug from a loved one outside the First Baptist Church of Summerfield Saturday afternoon.


    Town Mourns Teen's Violent Murder

    Friends and family have gathered at the site of the murder this week.

    Standing in front of the trailer where a 15-year-old boy was beaten, shot multiple times, then stuffed into a sleeping bag and burned in a fire pit, Crissy Huddleson does not understand

    "Daddy's Little Princess" did this?

    That is the family nickname for Michael Shane Bargo, the 18-year-old with tattooed tears on his face who could be facing the death penalty.

    Shaken authorities say he plotted and carried out a crime so unthinkable it is unlike any they have ever seen.

    "We always teased him about being Daddy's Little Princess because he was a wimp," said Huddleson, a close friend of the Bargo family for over 30 years.

    Bargo is one of five people charged with first-degree murder in the savage death of 15-year-old Seath Tyler Jackson, who was lured to the small peach-colored trailer by a former girlfriend on April 17.

    The murder took place in the small town of Summerfield, just south of Ocala, an area now known for something far less gentle than its sweeping green hills, white border fences and gorgeous horses galloping in the grass.

    "It's sickening," Huddleson said. "Not because it's so sad, but because it's so gruesome."

    Young lives ruined

    There is a small tribute to Seath Jackson next to a telephone pole about 30 yards from the front of the trailer.

    At the base of the telephone pole are candles, pictures and posters that say things like "Y'all need to rot in Hell" and "Seriously, how could you do this?"

    Though the trailer is on a one-lane dirt road not easy to find, many people, especially teenagers, have stopped to pay respects and express disgust, usually both.

    On Friday morning "The Today Show" broadcast live from the spot, but by the afternoon the scene surrounding the trailer was quiet and still.

    Only four people were there. They stood by the candles and held hands while a woman named Eva Ellsworth prayed out loud.

    Huddleson's daughter, Brittany Huddleson, who knew Jackson, was the one crying in the hot sun.

    "I don't know how anyone in their right mind could think of this," Brittany said. "Never in my 16 years of life have I thought of something like this."

    In front of the trailer are three bicycles lying on the ground, an old Honda 500 motorcycle and a pressure cleaner. On one side, next to a red dumpster, is a mattress the police had pulled out earlier in the week.

    On the front door is a white sign that reads: "Feel free to grieve, but out of respect to the boy please do not enter the house."

    One of the suspects said the murder weapon had been hidden inside an air conditioning vent in the trailer, but it has yet to be found.

    By Friday afternoon the crime scene tape had been removed. A neighbor came out later in the day to post "No Trespassing" signs strung together by pink tape.

    "I think it's disgusting," Crissy Huddleson, 39, said as she stood by the tribute. "It's very tragic. Just because their children aren't dead it doesn't matter. All of them are gone. Everyone lost out. Seven families lost dearly. A lot of young lives are ruined."

    But as horrible as this is, and whatever images emerge in people's minds as they look at the trailer, the murder has also brought some people together.

    At one point Friday, Crissy Huddleson attempted to nail a yellow poster to the telephone pole. She was having trouble until Richarddon Elsworth, 38, pulled up and helped.

    As it turned out, they used to be childhood friends. It was the first time they had seen each other since high school, 22 years ago.

    They did not realize it but they had just pounded a nail into a wooden structure at the scene of a death.

    It was Good Friday.

    ‘They had no heart'

    At one point Seath Jackson and 15-year-old Amber Wright were a couple, but their relationship greatly deteriorated over the past few months and they expressed their feelings in several Facebook rants often filled with expletives.

    According to authorities, Bargo had developed a deep hatred for Jackson, possibly because Jackson had once hit Wright.

    Bargo had become close to the girl since moving to Summerfield three years ago from Michigan, where he had been living with his mother, Tracey.

    On Facebook Jackson called out Bargo to fight on several occasions, but it is not known if they ever did.

    Crissy Huddleson thinks Bargo would have been too scared to fight Jackson.

    After all, he is the person who has a sign on the BMX bicycle he rides that reads: Daddy's Little Princess.

    Bargo, according to authorities, hatched a plot where Wright and another girl, 18-year-old Charlie Ely, would lure Jackson to the trailer.

    Here is what authorities say happened once he got there:

    Jackson was immediately struck in the head with a stick, and then Bargo shot him multiple times. Jackson tried to escape but was held down by 20-year-old Justin Soto, while Bargo shot him again. Jackson's body was taken to a bathtub where Bargo broke his kneecaps. Thinking he might still be alive, Bargo shot him yet again.

    Jackson was then hog-tied, placed in a sleeping bag and thrown into a backyard fire pit. The trailer was cleaned with bleach and Jackson's remains were later shoveled into 5-gallon paint cans.

    Divers later found what is believed to be those paint cans in a remote lime rock pit in the Ocala area.

    Detectives say James Young Havens III, the 37-year-old stepfather to two of the suspects, was aware of the plot, helped dispose of the body and at some point drove Bargo 90 minutes to Starke, where he was later arrested at a girlfriend's house.

    Havens, a butcher at a local grocery store, was charged with accessory after the fact to first-degree murder and has since bonded out of jail.

    A neighbor across the street from the home were Tyler was killed said when he left for work around 6 a.m. on April 18, the morning after the murder, he noticed the fire was still burning and two boys were sitting beside it.

    Also that morning, he said a neighbor's dog had gotten lost and someone went to the trailer to ask about it.

    Whoever answered nonchalantly said they would put the dog back on its chain should they come across it.

    "They had no heart," said the man, who identified himself as R.J. "It was like it didn't bother them at all."

    R.J. said whenever he left his house prior to the murder "you could always feel eyes on you. They were looking at everyone around here."

    He has a 27-year-old daughter in a wheelchair who now gets startled when she hears a noise, any noise, and does not want to leave the house anymore.

    He remembers someone loudly playing an electric guitar occasionally in the front yard of the trailer, and sometimes being disturbed by parties.

    Yet he was home when the murder took place, when multiple shots were fired from a black .22-caliber handgun into a 15-year-old boy, and he never heard a thing.

    Not a violent boy

    Crissy Huddleson plans on visiting Michael Bargo, Jr. in jail soon because "he is the product of one of my best friends."

    She already knows the first question she will ask him.

    "What in the Hell, what in the Hell, what in the Hell did that kid do to deserve this?"

    Though she now lives about 25 miles west of Summerfield, she said she grew up in the same neighborhood as the murder scene along with Michael Bargo, Sr., the father of the suspect.

    They have known each other more than 30 years, Huddleson said.

    "They're not animals," she said of the family, excluding the murder suspect. "I know a lot of people are going to think that, but they are very good people.

    "I'll have their backs all the way through this."

    Huddleson said she knows the younger Bargo well and that he never talked about guns or killing humans or animals in her presence.

    She said she remembers getting a phone call on April 29, 1992, with the news Michael Bargo Jr. had been born.

    She looks at the haunting trailer now, feels the horror it emanates, and remembers a time, many years ago, when it was not there.

    She would climb the oak trees on the vacant land with Michael Bargo, Sr. and they would talk for hours, never dreaming that one day his son would be accused of a grisly murder on the very ground below.

    http://www.theledger.com/article/201...1374?p=5&tc=pg

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    Two teens charged Seath Tyler Jackson murder plead not guilty in Fla. court

    Amber Wright and her step-brother Kyle Hooper, two of five people accused of the brutal murder of 15-year-old Seath Tyler Jackson, reportedly appeared in court Wednesday morning in Marion County, Fla.

    Pictures: Six arrested in brutal murder of Fla. boy

    Standing side by side, and accompanied by their parents, Wright and Hooper listened as their attorneys told the judge they were not guilty of first-degree murder, according to the Ocala Star-Banner.

    The two are accused, along with three others, of beating and shooting Amber's ex-boyfriend and then burning the remains in an attempt to cover it up.

    The judge set another court date for May 6 and ordered the two teens held in secure detention until that date, the Star-Banner reported.

    Prosecutors have not decided whether to try the teens as adults, the paper reported.

    Wright and Hooper's parents had no comment about the charges facing their children.

    http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_1...98-504083.html

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    All she had to do..dial 911. Prior to Seath Jackson's arrival!

    Attorney says young murder suspect is being 'crucified' by national media

    A defense lawyer for one of the teens arrested for the murder of a 15-year-old boy is asking a judge to restrict the public and press from court proceedings, seal records related to the case and gag all parties from discussing the case in public due to "intense media scrutiny" that he feels compromises his client’s right to a fair trial.

    In a motion filed Thursday with the circuit court in Marion County, Melbourne-based attorney Jonathan F. Bull claims his client, Charlie K. Ely, is being "crucified in the national media by irresponsible hate mongering demagogues with vitriolic opinion and rank speculation about other bad acts that are completely irrelevant to the case."

    Copies of the motion were delivered to the State Attorney’s Office and news outlets CNN, the Orlando Sentinel and the Ocala Star-Banner Thursday.

    Ely, 18, is being held at the Marion County Jail without bond for her alleged involvement in a murder plot to kill Seath Jackson early last week. She is accused of helping lure Jackson to her Summerfield residence, where the teen was then beaten, tortured and shot before his body was tossed into a burn pit, authorities allege.

    Attached to Bull’s three-page motion are print-outs of the dozen-plus articles published in the past 10 days about the murder. In citing the volume of both local and national news coverage on Jackson’s death and details of the accused, Bull expressed concern with the way his client is being characterized in the media.

    This includes a suggestion on an April 22 broadcast of the Dr. Drew show on the HLN network that Ely was high on methamphetamine at the time of the murder and a comment made on a CNN Sunday show that called the defendants "heartless animals who deserved the death penalty for the murder of this innocent boy."

    The attorney argues that simply moving the trial would do little good at this point because "the most egregious allegations and ad hominem attacks are taking place in the National Media."

    With the exception of two juveniles’, all cases opened against the suspects in Jackson’s murder have been assigned to Circuit Judge Hale Stancil. Arraignment is scheduled for May 24. A grand jury is expected to convene next week to discuss murder indictments.

    At her first appearance hearing before County Judge Sarah Ritterhoff Williams, Ely was deemed ineligible to receive services from the Public Defender’s Office due to payments from a past civil settlement.

    http://www.gainesville.com/article/2...ment?p=2&tc=pg

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