ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35) – Next to the burned outline where 18-year-old Jeremy Stewart was murdered, his father James Stewart, asked questions without answers. “I hear the stories of him being tied and gagged and shot and burned. How did it happen? Did they suffer?” asked James Stewart, as he was surrounded by hundreds of mourners at this site where the bodies were found. “I wanna know so I can stop creating stories in my head, and figure out the real story so I can have closure.”
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The grief stricken father also spoke about how affectionate his 18-year old son was, and how he loved to play jokes on his father. But Sheriff’s detectives say Jeremy and his best friend, 16-year- old Nicholas Persha, were both discovered by a jogger along Cady Way Trail in Winter Park on Sunday. Detectives say the teen’s hands were tied, and they were shot in the back of the head.
In the midst of their suffering, other family members describe Jeremy as a fun loving jokester, who’s only blemish was a recent arrest as a passenger in a stolen car. He pled down to trespassing, and was in the midst of serving probation. But the family says a recent media report claiming the teen’s death might be connected to drugs, is impossible for them to believe.
“I know the two of them. They were not thugs. They were good, good kids,” said Stewart.
The Orange County Sheriff’s Office says they have little information about who murdered the two teens. Family member say they can’t stop asking themselves painful questions with no answers.
“Was he begging for his life?,” asked Wanda Stewart, Jeremy’s grandmother. “And for somebody to shoot him in the head? And burn him?“
She paused as tears began to run down her face. “That’s evil… nothing but evil.”
