Death Penalty Waived for 4 of 5 Charged in Machete Murder of Homestead Teen
By Claudia DoCampo • Updated on February 21, 2017 at 6:37 pm Prosecutors have waived the possibility of the death penalty for four of the five suspects charged in the killing of a classmate in a federal job training program in Homestead. Police say 17-year-old Jose Amaya Guardado was hacked with a machete and made to lie in a grave in his final moments in July 2015. Guardado's family found his mutilated body in the woods after he had been missing for about a week. The crime scene was near The Homestead Job Corp school he attended. Fellow students Christian Colon, Desiray Strickla...