Two teen brothers have been charged with first-degree murder of a Florida man who went missing and was later found dead.
What We Know:
- Danne Frazier, 21, was reported missing by his family on November 4th when he never returned home. Police say he left his job around 2am and was seen for the last time at a gas station 20 minutes later. The body of the victim was found six days later in an orange grove in Lake Wales, Florida. An autopsy showed Frazier had a skull fracture and a broken piece of a knife blade in his neck, declaring his cause of death as homicide.
- Two days after his disappearance, authorities spotted Frazier’s car and conducted a traffic stop. The driver, Jo “JoJo” Lobato (19), fled the scene leaving his younger brother Angel Lobato (18) in the passenger seat not speaking a word to law enforcement. In that moment, the vehicle had not been reported stolen yet and Frazier’s body had not been discovered. So, the police were not able to keep Angel in custody. Warrants were eventually obtained for the Lobato brothers and they were brought into custody where they confessed to the brutal murder.
- The brothers “confessed to a coordinated and planned attack which included robbing and then killing Frazier,” as reported by a news release. They had his murder planned for weeks in a disgusting attempt to earn “street cred”. The two lured Frazier on social media believing he was an easy target to rob and kill. Sheriff Grady Judd labeled the two as “pure evil in the flesh,” saying they even bragged about their gruesome killing when being interviewed. Judd added, “They murdered a really nice young man, Danne was just a good kid.”
- In addition to first-degree murder, Jo and Angel combined face a collection of other charges: conspiracy to commit first degree murder, armed robbery, grand theft of a motor vehicle, accessory after the fact of a capital felony, giving false information during a capital investigation, burglary of a vehicle, and destroying/tampering with evidence.
Both brothers are currently booked in Polk County Jail without bail.
