Five Florida students have been charged with first-degree murder in the machete slaying of a fellow vocational school student and could face the death penalty.
The Miami Herald reports that a grand jury indicted the five suspects Wednesday.
Police
say that in June, the Homestead Job Corps students lured 17-year-old
Jose Amaya Guardado into a wooded area near the school, where he was
hacked to death with the machete and buried in a shallow grave. The
victim's brother found his body several days later.
An arrest report contends the suspects planned the attack two weeks in advance.
The
murder has brought scrutiny to the Homestead Job Corps, a live-in
school and vocational training program for at-risk students run by the
U.S. Department of Labor. Fall classes were suspended at the school.
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