14-Yr-Old Girl Reported as a Runaway Was Actually Shot and Set on Fire by Two Teen Classmates | Crime Alert 5PM 12.05.25

Danika Troy was reported missing Monday from Pace, Florida, about 20 miles east of the Alabama border. But investigators believe she was killed the night before.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Crime Alaric hourly update, Breaking crime news Now. I'm Nicole
parton a shocking case out of Florida. A fourteen year
old girl reported as a runaway was found brutally murdered
in a wooded area earlier this week. Authorities say two
teenage boys are now facing first degree murder charges. Santa
Rosa County Sheriff Bob Johnson announced Thursday that the suspects,

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ages fourteen and sixteen, were arrested and charged in connection
with the death of Danica Jade Troy. Officials hoped to
try both teens as an adult, though their names have
not yet been released because they are miners. Danica was
reported missing Monday from Pace, Florida that's about twenty miles
east of the Alabama border, but investigators believe she was

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killed the night before. According to Sheriff Johnson, the girl
was allegedly lured into a wooded area by the two boys,
teens she reportedly knew from school, and then the details
turned horrific. Sheriff Johnson says the sixteen year old stole
his mother's handgun and shot Danica multiple times.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
And this is where it gets really it's really horrific.
Actually they developed two suspects, one a fourteen year old
boy and another one a sixteen year old boy. The
sixteen year old boy, Gabriel Williams, stole his mother's handgun
and shot Danica Troy Kamari blevins Is. The fourteen year

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old put their pictures up. They're currently had DJJ. They're
being held on first degree premeditated murder charges. And here's
where it even gets worse. It's bad enough you kill
a fourteen year old, you're fourteen, you're sixteen, shoot her
multiple times, then they set her on fire.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
Afterward, the teens allegedly set her body on fire. Her
burned and bullet riddled body was discovered Tuesday by a
passer by who called nine to one point one. Detectives
say evidence quickly pointed to the two suspects. Both are
now being held by the Department of Juvenile Justice. A
motive remains unclear. Meanwhile, the community is rallying around Denica's family.

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A go Fundme page to help cover funeral expenses has
raised more than five thousand dollars so far. Police say
the investigation is ongoing. More Crime and Justice news after
this in Virginia, the wife of a football coach turned fugitive,

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Travis Turner, has denied helping him escape, as more details
surrounding his shocking disappearance come to light. Turner, forty six,
vanished in the middle of his team's undefeated season on
November twenty after being accused of child sex crimes. According
to local officials, his last known location was Appalachia, Virginia,

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and he has been a wanted fugitive since November two,
twenty four. The family's attorney, Adrianne Collins, has since revealed
Travis left several personal items at home that included his keys,
prescription medication, his contact lens supplies, and his wallet which
contained his driver's license, and it was Turner's worried wife, Leslie,

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who reported him missing, according to the family's attorney. Family's
attorney Collins refuted any suggestion that the wife may have
helped Turner escaped and sent a message directly to the coach, saying,
Leslie pleads for you to come home and face the
allegations by defending yourself in the court of law. Don't

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leave your family to fight this battle without you, he said.
Turner has wanted on five counts of child pornography and
five counts of using a computer to solicit a minor.
US Marshals have warned he may be armed as they
shared a wanted poster, and have issued a five thousand
dollar reward for any information leading to his whereabouts. The

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agency has not issued a statement since Monday's appeal. Leslie
Turner's wife of twenty five years, has been relatively tight
lipped in light of his disappearance, but she did strongly
defend her husband, saying the allegations against him are untrue. Thomas,
known as Duncan Callans, vanished on a cold morning after

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walking into a store, where one final heartbreaking image of
the now missing man was caught on surveillance. Duncan left
a home on Mathis Road in Corinth, Mississippi during a
frigid early morning argument with his girlfriend that was on
January seventh, twenty twenty five. He left behind all of
his belongings and his truck. At approximately four point thirty

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that morning, he walked into the Old Bull Market located
at three one zero seven Highway seventy two West one
silver Lining. The clerk noticed he was cold and had
compassion upon Duncan. She gave him some coffee, a black
co and a T shirt that Duncan is said to
have wrapped around his legs. The image was captured showing

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the man as he looked cold and helpless, wrapping up
in the warmth provided by the clerk. He then walked away.
Duncan left the store that morning, giving no indication of
where he was headed, but around ten thirty am, a
man who was believed to be Duncan was seen walking
towards Pickwick, Tennessee. From there, where he went and what
happened remains unknown, other than he did not meet his

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brother to go duck hunting as planned later that day.
It was his brother that reported him missing. His then
girlfriend has recently claimed that she is the one who
reported him missing. However, his brother says it was in
fact him. Duncan is described as a thirty eight year
old white male five seven, one hundred and seventy five pounds.

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He was wearing a blue hoodie, a green beanie and
a black puffy jacket, gray shorts, gray sneakers, and that
black T shirt that he was given by the store
clerk that he wrapped around his legs. Over time, several
people have reported seeing him when places across the state,
but none of the sightings have been confirmed. Police are

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asking anyone with information who may know where Duncan is
to please reach out to the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation
at eight eight eight eight two seven four six three seven.
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I'm Nicole Parton.