Four South Florida Job Corps students were arrested and charged with using a machete to attack another student before burying him alive in the woods.
Miami-Dade police arrested Desiray Strickland, 18, Kaheem Arbelo, 20, Jonathan Lucas, 18, and Christian Colon, 19, and charged them with the gruesome death of 17-year-old Jose Amaya Guardado (pictured inset).
Police say the four students dug a hole and hid the machete in some bushes several days before luring Guardado to the woods.
In the police report, Detective Juan Segovia described Guardado’s final attempts to defend himself; “at which time, [Arbelo] struck the victim with the machete several more times until the victim’s face caved in.”
The four attackers then ordered the mortally wounded Guardado to lay down in the hole they had dug for him.
Police say Arbelo and Strickland had sex in the woods after helping to bury Guardado.
During the bloodbath, Strickland reportedly complained to the others “that she had missed the first series of machete strikes because she had walked away for a few minutes to urinate in the woods.”
A fifth suspect is expected to be arrested soon, the NY Post reports.
The four students and the victim attended a live-in Job Corps school for at-risk students in Miami.
Strickland head-butted an arresting officer in the chest and she was forcibly restrained during her arrest.
She faces additional charges of violence, battery on an officer and criminal mischief for trying to pick her handcuffs with wires from an electrical outlet and scrawling “MPD Go to Hell” on a table.
All four students are charged as adults with first-degree murder and face the death penalty.
