Post by Scumhunter on Aug 10, 2019 1:13:02 GMT -5
(Above photo credit: Palm Beach Post's blog via Crime Stoppers of Palm Beach County, inc.)
From the South Florida Sun-Sentinel (sun-sentinel.com): (2015 article)
On the day that was supposed to be Carley Chapman's 20th birthday, a light went into the sky.
Down on the beach below, her family watched as the lantern they lit for her climbed higher and higher. The same wind that carried the flame higher caught some of her ashes when tossed by her family, letting Carley rest with the turtles and the sea — two things she dearly loved.
"She was so full of life," said Paula Chapman, Carley's stepmother. "She had a really good heart and it's very hard to know that she's not here."
Carley Chapman, 19, Se'Sawn Danford and Martavious Brown, both 17, were shot and killed on Aug. 4, 2014 in a Mangonia Park apartment while they were playing video games just before 10:30 a.m.
Deputies said they do not know why the three were shot or who killed them. A year later, they are still asking people to come forward to find justice for the families of those killed.
The families of Carley Chapman and Danford say their children were targeted because they happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. The two were both starting new chapters in their lives — Carley Chapman was beginning to apply to college and Danford was preparing for his senior year, his sights set on a career in the military.
In the year since their passing, their families said the loss of their children haunts them every day.
"I keep waking up and thinking it's a dream, and it's not," said Danford's mother, Sharon Moore. "It's never going to be over."
Carley Chapman didn't know what she wanted to do for the rest of her life, but she was excited to figure it out. She looked into local colleges, her stepmom said, and was hoping continuing her education might help her decide.
A graduate of Palm Beach Gardens High School, Carley Chapman loved turtles, butterflies and preached about peace and happiness. She was the youngest of four children — the only girl — and had lived with her father, Randy, and her stepmom, Paula, since she was 5.
On the day she died, Paula Chapman said her daughter was visiting her boyfriend in unit 205 at 4743 Australian Avenue. For an unknown reason, Carley Chapman became an unintended target. When the family got the call, their world changed forever.
"There's not a day that goes by that I don't think about her," Paula Chapman said. "It's around you 24/7. You go anywhere and there's something that just brings it all back."
Se'Sawn Danford was also at the wrong place at the wrong time. The 17-year-old had hung out at the apartment before with his cousin.
On the day he died, his mother said she was supposed to send him some money through a wire transfer. He told her he'd pick it up at the Winn Dixie down the street from the apartment and to call when it was ready.
But Moore, who lived in Savannah, Ga., at the time, said rain delayed her trip. It was OK, he told her, he would just hang out with his friends in Mangonia Park.
"I kept calling and calling, and he didn't answer. It wasn't like him," Moore said. "He waited there. I hold this on me, maybe I should've went out in the rain. Maybe I should've taken a chance. If only I had just gotten there sooner."
Danford was going to be a senior at Palm Beach Gardens High School. He was respectable and always helped out his elders. Danford never had to ask him to cut the grass or do chores — those were just the things that he did, Moore said.
After high school, he told his mother he wanted to enter the military. He mulled over the Marines or the Navy. Whatever his path, he liked what the military stood for: helping people, being strong. This spring, Moore received the diploma her son would've gotten had he gotten the chance to walk across the stage.
Both Carley Chapman and Danford's mothers said they are devastated that two teens with their whole lives ahead of them died before they could really live.
What hurts more, they said, is knowing that someone out there might know why their children died and isn't saying anything.
"I just want someone to say something," Moore said. "I just want justice. I just want closure, you understand? Is that so wrong?"
www.sun-sentinel.com/local/palm-beach/fl-unsolved-triple-killing-anniversary-20150804-story.html
Thoughts? I am placing this beyond tragic case in the Unsolved on TV section since In Pursuit with John Walsh made a Facebook post about the search for the Carley, Se'Sawn and Martavious's killer or killers on an August 9th, 2019 status update (hence how we know the case is still unsolved at least as of that posting date despite the above article being from 2014).
Granted this was back in 2014, but back then it seemed to be speculated in articles that Carley's boyfriend, known by the nickname "Face", may have been the reason for the trouble brought into the home that morning. He was described by Carley's father as a "gangster kid" and "bad seed": www.palmbeachpost.com/article/20140805/NEWS/812031371
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