{"id":63490,"date":"2025-12-07T19:13:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T19:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/63490\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T19:13:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T19:13:21","slug":"florida-teen-danika-troy-allegedly-murdered-by-teens-kimahri-blevins-and-gabriel-williams-over-online-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/63490\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida teen Danika Troy allegedly murdered by teens Kimahri Blevins and Gabriel Williams over online dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two baby-faced Florida teens allegedly lured a 14-year-old girl into the woods before they fatally shot her and set her remains on fire over an online dispute.<\/p>\n<p>Danika Troy was last seen by her mother on Nov. 30, and was reported missing as a runaway the next day, around 7 a.m., Santa Rosa County Sheriff Bob Johnson told reporters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/1155592283412481\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">at a press conference Thursday.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnbeknownst to the mother, Danika was murdered the previous night,\u201d Johnson said.<\/p>\n<p>Danika Troy was found murdered in a wooded area of Pace, Florida, on Dec. 2, 2025. Santa Rosa County Sheriff&#8217;s Office<\/p>\n<p>Danika Troy is seen in an undated Facebook photo. Facebook\/Ashley Troy<\/p>\n<p>Troy\u2019s body was found discarded in a wooded area off of Kimberly Rd in Pace, Florida \u2014 17 miles north of Pensacola near the southern coast of the Florida Panhandle \u2014 at around 11 a.m. on Dec. 2.<\/p>\n<p>Teenagers Kimahri Blevins, 14, and Gabriel Williams, 16, were identified as the primary murder suspects and charged with first-degree premeditated murder. <\/p>\n<p>Troy is believed to have died of multiple gunshot wounds before her body was set on fire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is where it gets really horrific,\u201d Johnson said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s bad enough you kill a 14-year-old, you\u2019re 14, you\u2019re 16, shoot her multiple times, then they set her on fire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gabriel Williams, 16, allegedly stole his mother\u2019s handgun before the fatal shooting of Danika Troy. Santa Rosa County Sheriff&#8217;s Office<\/p>\n<p>Kimahri Blevins, 14, told police he had a falling out with Danika Troy before her murder. Santa Rosa County Sheriff&#8217;s Office<\/p>\n<p>The three teens were \u201cacquaintances\u201d from school and had a falling out over Thanksgiving break, police said.<\/p>\n<p>A witness told investigators that Blevins revealed he and Williams \u201cplanned the murder of Danika\u201d with the initial plan only to shoot the girl once, <a href=\"https:\/\/lawandcrime.com\/crime\/2-teens-lured-14-year-old-girl-to-the-woods-where-they-executed-her-and-burned-her-body-over-hurtful-social-media-slight-police\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Law and Crime reported, <\/a>citing an arrest report.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged murderous teens wanted Troy killed because she slighted them when she blocked Blevins\u2019 social media account and insulted Williams, calling him \u201cworthless and a gang-banger.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with all you need to know\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMorning Report delivers the latest news, videos, photos and more.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Williams is accused of taking things further when the two juveniles burned Troy\u2019s body. <\/p>\n<p>Blevins was caught sneaking back home at 11 p.m. on the night of the alleged murder, telling his mother he had gone out to smoke cigarettes but she didn\u2019t smell anything on him, according to the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>He was questioned by detectives and confirmed he and Troy \u201chad a falling out and he blocked her on social media.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Williams cried to detectives that the 14-year-old girl had made the \u201churtful comments,\u201d before he was arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Danika Troy\u2019s body was found in a wooded area off Kimberly Rd in Pace, Florida. ABC\/WEAR<\/p>\n<p>Johnson said there wasn\u2019t a \u201cclear motive\u201d as the suspects\u2019 stories haven\u2019t lined up with the evidence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is what Major Crimes calls a groundball, the evidence pointed to them immediately and they took them into custody immediately,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cUnfortunately for the Troy family they have to go through this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The teens have had \u201crun-ins\u201d with law enforcement in the past, but Johnson wouldn\u2019t disclose if they had previous arrests.<\/p>\n<p>Williams cried to detectives that the 14-year-old girl had made the \u201churtful comments\u201d before he was arrested. ABC\/WEAR<\/p>\n<p>The two teens were charged with first-degree premeditated murder. ABC\/WEAR<\/p>\n<p>Officials haven\u2019t ruled out charging any of the parents in Troy\u2019s murder as they are \u201cstill looking into it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Johnson revealed the county has had \u201cmore homicides this year than normal,\u201d but Troy\u2019s murder is the first \u201cjuvenile on juvenile\u201d since he was elected sheriff in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t want to go out to see a burnt child with bullet holes, that is not something you sign up for,\u201d Johnson said.<\/p>\n<p>Officials are hoping the two teens will be tried as adults.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHopefully, they go to adult prison, which is where they need to go. You do an adult crime, you got to do the adult time,\u201d Johnson said.<\/p>\n<p>The teens are being held in juvenile detention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two baby-faced Florida teens allegedly lured a 14-year-old girl into the woods before they fatally shot her and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3283,1015,3640,238,9,11,10,3980,4730,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-63490","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-arrests","9":"tag-deaths","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-murders","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-news","15":"tag-shootings","16":"tag-teens","17":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}