{"id":1996,"date":"2026-02-12T17:48:54","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T17:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/?p=1996"},"modified":"2026-02-12T17:48:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T17:48:54","slug":"missing-florida-teen-shot-burned-left-for-dead-by-school-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/?p=1996","title":{"rendered":"Missing Florida Teen Shot, Burned, &#038; Left For Dead By School Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"160\">Two Florida teens are accused of luring 14-year-old Danika Troy into the woods, where she was fatally shot and her body set on fire following an online dispute.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"162\" data-end=\"345\">Danika was last seen Nov. 30 and reported missing the next morning. Authorities later said she had been killed that night. Her body was found Dec. 2 in a wooded area in Pace, Florida.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"347\" data-end=\"640\">Police charged Kimahri Blevins, 14, and Gabriel Williams, 16, with first-degree premeditated murder. Investigators believe she was shot multiple times before the suspects burned her body. A witness told authorities the teens had planned the killing after a falling out over Thanksgiving break.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"642\" data-end=\"878\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Both suspects, who knew Danika from school, are being held in juvenile detention. Officials say the motive remains unclear and the investigation is ongoing. A GoFundMe has been created to help cover funeral expenses for Danika\u2019s family.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kzy4cciEpbs?si=g13rGKFRZ0MukjUu\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Two Florida teens are accused of luring 14-year-old Danika Troy into the woods, where she was fatally shot and her body set on fire following <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/?p=1996\" title=\"Missing Florida Teen Shot, Burned, &#038; Left For Dead By School Friends\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1998,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996\/revisions\/1998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}