Three juveniles, aged 12, 16, and 17, have been arrested as suspects in the murders of three other teens.
At an April 7 press conference, Marion County Sheriff Billy Woods said his department had received a phone call from the Forest Lakes Park area on Thursday, March 30. When deputies arrived, they found 16-year-old Layla Silvernail laying on the side of the road. She had been shot. She was transferred to a local hospital where she later died of her injuries.
According to an April 3 Marion County Sheriff Department Facebook post, Silvernail was found on SE 183rd Avenue Road.
Later, another juvenile was found dead.
“The following morning, deputies responded to SE 94th Street and SE 188th Court in reference to a 17-year-old male lying beside the road, and he was found to be deceased from a gunshot wound,” the Sheriff’s department said during a press conference. This was about a half-mile away from where Silvernail was found….