The teens, who cops said were together before their deaths, were each shot and found in separate locations in Ocklawaha between Thursday night and Saturday afternoon.
Layla Silvernail, 16, was first found alive — with a bullet wound to the head — inside a dumpster on the side of a road Thursday night. She was rushed to a hospital where she was declared brain dead and taken off life support on Tuesday, Marion County Sheriff Billy Woods said.
Then on Saturday afternoon, investigators found a third body belonging to a 16-year-old girl. The teen was inside Silvernail’s car which was partially submerged in a lake, Woods said. Layla Silvernail, 16, was taken off life support Tuesday after she was found in a dumpster with a bullet wound to the head five days earlier.Silvernail was discovered alive inside the dumpster along Southeast 183rd Avenue Road Thursday night.Woods said detectives are investigating the possibility that the teens were shot and killed by members of so-called “hybrid gangs.”
Woods did not say if any of the victims were associated with the so-called hybrid gangs but added that the possibility is part of the investigation.The body of a 16-year-old girl was found in Silvernail’s partially submerged vehicle in a lake near Malauka Loop Saturday afternoon.“Let’s be frank, anyone who associated with a gang at some point in their life, they’ve done something, whether they have been arrested or not,” he said.
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