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Family shot to death, dumped by Florida road
« on: Oct 13^th, 2006, 1:01pm »

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Officials: Family shot to death, dumped by Florida road
POSTED: 1:48 p.m. EDT, October 13, 2006

PORT ST. LUCIE, Florida (AP) -- Two adults and two children were found shot to death Friday along an isolated stretch of Florida's Turnpike, with the woman clutching the two children in an apparent attempt to protect them, authorities said.

The deaths were not murder-suicide, St. Lucie County Sheriff Ken Mascara said.

He said officials assume the family was in a vehicle that pulled off the highway and that someone inside the vehicle shot all four victims multiple times before driving away. (Watch police work the scene around the bodies -- 3:00)

Florida Highway Patrol troopers got a call shortly before 8 a.m. after someone spotted the bodies of the man, woman, boy and girl off the southbound shoulder of the highway in Port St. Lucie, the sheriff's office said.

The adults were both in their 20s or 30s, and the children appeared to be between the ages of 4 and 6, Mascara said. All had been shot multiple times, he said.

"It appears to be a Hispanic family," Mascara said. "The female had both the children clutched in a defensive mode, in an attempt to protect them. It gives the appearance that they were a family traveling."

No vehicle was found near the bodies, but there were tire tracks leading back onto the turnpike, Mascara said.

The bodies were found in a grassy area near the St. James Golf Club, several miles from the nearest rest stop, the sheriff's office said.

Tracy Maynor, staff clerk at the golf club, said a resident of the homes along the golf course reported hearing "some shots or fireworks at about 3 in the morning. That's about all we heard."

Cameras posted along the turnpike were not recording at the time, Mascara said.

A blue tent was set up over the bodies, and white material covered them until they were released to the medical examiner. An autopsy was scheduled Friday afternoon.

A message left at the medical examiner's office was not immediately returned.

Florida's Turnpike is the main toll road connecting the Miami area with cities along the Atlantic Coast to Fort Pierce and then inland to Orlando and Interstate 75.

Copyright 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

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Re: Family shot to death, dumped by Florida road
« Reply #1 on: Oct 14^th, 2006, 9:57am »

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This is just horrible.

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Re: Family shot to death, dumped by Florida road
« Reply #2 on: Oct 14^th, 2006, 10:12am »

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My first thought; drug deal gone bad..........

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Re: Family shot to death, dumped by Florida road
« Reply #3 on: Oct 14^th, 2006, 3:20pm »

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I second that JP... Just terrible.

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« Reply #4 on: Oct 14^th, 2006, 10:25pm »

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By STEPHEN MAJORS, Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 20 minutes ago

FORT PIERCE, Fla. - Yessica Guerrero Escobedo and Jose Luis Escobedo were high school sweethearts, a relative said, who fell in love and married. Recently, they packed up their two children and left their Texas home, headed for Florida in search of a new life.

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"Everybody loves them. They would do anything for anybody. There's not enough words they were just funny, caring, very lovely people," said Lisa Salazar, a relative in Brownsville, Texas.

On Saturday, authorities were trying to figure out how they were fatally shot along Florida's Turnpike in Port St. Lucie, about 100 miles north of Miami. The body of Yessica Guerrero Escobedo, 25, was found Friday clutching her two sons in an apparent effort to protect them. Her husband, who was to turn 29 on Saturday, was found nearby.

Salazar said the couple, married for three years, didn't have any enemies. She showed photos of the family, including the 3- and 4-year-old sons, at a news conference. They had hoped to return to Brownsville for Christmas, she said.

Investigators were watching 480 hours of surveillance tapes from toll booths along the turnpike hoping to spot any clues to lead to the suspects. Bullets found at the scene also were being analyzed to see if the same kind had been used in any other crimes.

Investigators believe the Escobedos' vehicle, a 1998 four-door Jeep Cherokee, had pulled to the side of highway before someone else in the vehicle shot them and drove away sometime between 1:30 and 3 a.m. Authorities were searching for the vehicle Saturday, Sheriff Ken Mascara said.

A motive for the shootings was not yet known. Authorities said the victims and the shooter may have known each other, and investigators were not approaching the crime as a carjacking.

A search warrant was issued for the family's home in Greenacres in Palm Beach County, where the family had moved in June from the Brownsville, Texas, area.

Their white stucco single-story house looked Saturday as though the family was still settling in to their new home the living room was devoid of furniture, except for a bean bag chair on the white tile floor. A handwritten note taped to the doorbell read, "Knock!! Door bell doesn't work."

Neighbors said they didn't know the family well.

"He waved to me once, that's about all," said Ron Vendetti, 83, who lives across the street.

Patrick Center, 25, who lives next door, said the husband once came over to introduce himself.

"Really nice guy," Center said.

Mascara said Friday the mother and father suffered multiple gunshot wounds. Formal autopsy results were not expected until Monday, according to the medical examiner's office.

Seven other law enforcement agencies around the country were involved in the investigation, Mascara said. Investigators had received about 200 phone calls offering tips, the sheriff said.

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Associated Press writers Brian Skoloff in Greenacres, Fla., and Lynn Brezosky in Brownsville, Texas, contributed to this story.

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Re: Family shot to death, dumped by Florida road
« Reply #5 on: Oct 14^th, 2006, 10:49pm »

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It's depressing to read this. This is just terrible! How can anyone do that to the young children? Cry

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« Reply #6 on: Oct 15^th, 2006, 4:53pm »

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Did they pick up a hitchhiker for some reason?

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Re: Family shot to death, dumped by Florida road
« Reply #7 on: Oct 15^th, 2006, 11:41pm »

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It sounds like a gang initiation to me. They were probably supposed to hijack the car and/or kill somebody. The proof that they actually did it is a newspaper article. Pretty sad world we live in, isn't it?

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