Posted on 03/28/2025 5:20:57 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
HERNANDO COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — The Hernando County Sheriff’s Office said a 16-year-old boy was arrested Friday after a teenage girl’s body was found near the Cypress Lake Preserve on Thursday morning.
Deputies said the girl’s body was found by a passerby off Ridge Manor Boulevard in Ridge Manor, near Cypress Lake Preserve, around 9:35 a.m. Thursday.
“We found out from one witness that this young lady left her home early in the morning. She went to go meet an individual who was likely the person who killed her,” Sheriff Al Nienhuis said during a news conference.
Nienhuis said the 16-year-old boy likely killed the girl with an “edged weapon.”
“There was a lot of passion and a lot of violence involved in the particular death so we were relatively confident that it wasn’t a random act,” Nienhuis said. “It was nothing short of very violent.”
The victim’s family identified her as Abbriella Elliott. They said the teenager was “a bubbly outgoing smart beautiful little girl” and celebrated her 16th birthday just two weeks ago.
The sheriff said Abbriella and the 16-year-old boy knew each other.
Nienhuis said the boy is in the process of being charged with first-degree murder
Why did they name the victim and not the perp?
Opposite side of the state from where 13-year-old Tristyn Bailey was murdered by Aiden Fucci in 2021.
Dead minors have no privacy rights, living minors do.
Was within a mile of this site today.
Well, it’s Florida, he will probably get spanked.
The perp can’t be black because they called him “boy”, which is why they normally say teen.
Not bloody likely to get away with it here in Florida. At 16 he may be charged as an adult, if the crime was particularly heinous. Th kid that murdered Tristin Bailey was 16, tried as an adult and last i heard is doing life in gen-pop without possibility of parole. Very similar circumstance. He stabbed Tristin more than a hundred times. sound like a similar crime.
The victim was publicly ID'd by her family. The killer will be ID'd after he's charged as an adult, which most certainly will be the case in Florida.
Family now says the killer was her ex-boyfriend. Still no ID on the perp.
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