15 yo murdered teen's Facebook posts provide clues

OCALA, Fla. -- Friends and family of 15-year-old Seath Jackson, who deputies said was murdered by a group of six people, held a vigil for the boy on Wednesday night, just hours after six people were charged with Jackson's murder.
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Friends of Jackson said they could not understand how the teenager's one-time friends could now be charged in his death.
"Who could murder a 15-year-old boy?" asked William Samalot, the victim's best friend.
Deputies in Marion County arrested six people after a teenager was beaten and shot and then his remains burned in a bound sleeping bag.
Crime scene technicians are expected to be back out on Thursday to search for the gun.

Deputies said the slaying happened on Sunday, but Jackson's parents didn't report him missing until Monday. On Tuesday, the suspects confessed, police said.
Investigators with the MCSO said Charlie Ely, 18; Amber E. Wright, 15; Michael Bargo, 18; Justin Soto, 20; James Havens, 47; and Kyle Hooper, 16, face first-degree murder charges.
Detectives said Jackson walked into a trap. Arrest records indicate the teenager was brought to a home on false pretenses.
Jackson's friends told WESH 2 News that the victim's ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend are at the center of the elaborate murder plot.
Investigators said the savage plot began with a hatred between the victim and Bargo. They said they believe Bargo enlisted five others to help carry it out.
Detectives said Wright, who was the victim's ex-girlfriend, and Ely lured Jackson to Ely's Summerfield home. Friends said they believe Jackson was lured for revenge in what became a teenage love triangle.
"Amber broke up with Seath and dated Mike Bargo," one of Jackson's friends told WESH 2 News.
Deputies said that when Jackson arrived at the house, Hooper and Soto jumped him and beat him up.
Jackson was beaten in the head with a wooden object, then shot multiple times, according to investigators. When Jackson tried to escape, deputies said, Soto tackled Jackson so Bargo could shoot him again.
According to an arrest affidavit, Soto admitted to moving Jackson's body into a bathtub, where he saw Bargo break the victim's knees in order to stuff the body into a blue sleeping bag.
That's when Soto said the group realized Jackson was still alive, so Bargo fired another round, police said.

Investigators said the group then placed Jackson's body into the sleeping bag and burned it in a fire pit, and Jackson's remains were shoveled into several paint cans.
Detectives said Bargo's stepfather drove him to a quarry to dump the ashes. Dive teams recovered the paint cans used to sink the remains.
"I couldn't believe it, that people who I know could just snap like that," said Tessa McLamb, a friend of the suspects.
Deputies said Havens is charged with accessory to first-degree murder because he was aware of the plan to kill Jackson. Deputies said Havens also attempted to help Bargo avoid capture.
"I hope they get the electric chair, and they burn and we can sit and watch like they did to him," said Billi Thorington, whose son was close friends with Jackson.

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[Sallyallie89]

@xy1p33y0x I'm sorry, but no social networking site will ever make me murder someone. Facebook does not murder people. People murder people. To blame facebook for this murder is absurd!

[juggalojake3]

Seath Jackson was a good freind of mine he didnt desearve any of that no matter wat words were said no one deserves that and u amber right my ex gf are a low life peice of shit and so are u roch and mike and charlie and kyle f@ck all u guys for doing that to him and plus u james for helping.i was just with him friday and then sunday he come up missing and then murdered thats some fucked shit die and rot in prison. R.I.P. Seath Tyler Jackson

[jdodd82]

Did Seath Jackson's parents sneeze when they wrote his first name on his birth certificate?

[zman7331]

ocala not orlando

[bambirette1]

no facebook is not behind the murders but it sure helped fuel the fire in this case and if youre in denial about that then im sorry.

[sexykatie90]

thumbs up if you like 15 yo murdered teen's Facebook posts provide clues

[swanthewarrior]

@xy1p33y0x yeah let's blame everything except the idiots who committed the crime. If it wasn't facebook they would have just traded texts. Don't make facebook your pariah

[swanthewarrior]

@xy1p33y0x even when they provide clues to a murder? Pretty ignorant thing to say.

[swanthewarrior]

@xy1p33y0x because nobody ever gets murdered in other countries. *rolls eyes*

[dunkatron]

This isn't sad. This is a half ton of human garbage prevented from burdening the rest of us. The use of an innocent bright-eyed youthful photo of Seath is misleading as he immersed himself in this culture and portrayed himself as being hard. I'm convinced Seath could easily have been participating in the murder of another "thug" if the shoe were on the other foot.

[mehelloYO]

ITS PRONOUNCED SETH BUT SPELLED SEATH!

You dumb fuck insulting my brother!