Michael Shane Bargo was given the death penalty when he was resentenced in 2011 for killing Seath Jackson in the first degree. Find out as much as you can about the killer and what happened.
The Florida Supreme Court ruled on June 23 to uphold a lower court’s death sentence. This means that a 29-year-old man will stay on death row.
Police say that Jackson was taken to a house, attacked by Bargo, and then killed in a brutal way. Later, they burned his body and spread the ashes in a rock quarry filled with water.
Michael Shane Bargo Wikipedia
Michael Shane Bargo was born on April 29, 1992, in the United States. At the time of the crime, he was 18 years old.
When he was caught for the first time in 2013, he was a white man who was 21 years old. Before the murder in 2010, he was accused of breaking and entering and stealing a lot of money.
Bargo grew up in a “poor and abusive family,” where he was wrongly diagnosed with ADHD and given medication for it. Justice Jorge Labarga looked into his death sentence.
According to the mitigation that was given to the circuit court, Bargo and his mother did not get along. Due to his parents’ divorce, Bargo was seen as a danger to himself or to other people.
The hatred between his mother and father had a big effect on how he grew up. Bargo was picked on and made fun of when he was a teenager because he was smaller than other kids his age. He also has a beautiful sister named Lauren.
What happened to Michael Bargo?
The California Department of Corrections website says that Michael Bargo, who is now 29 years old, is a prisoner at Florida’s Union Correctional Institution.
In a 6-1 decision, the justices threw out Michael Shane Bargo’s appeal after his lawyers said, among other things, that a circuit court didn’t look into his mental health during the trial.
The trial court found two statutory mitigators and a lot of other things that made the sentence less harsh. Bargo had damage to the frontal lobe of his brain, bipolar disorder, schizoaffective disorder, complex partial seizure disorder, hallucinations, less control over his inhibitions, and his father left him while he was growing up.
Even though the jury in Bargo’s first trial mostly agreed with the death penalty, the Florida Supreme Court later ordered a second sentencing hearing because the decision was not unanimous. But at a later hearing, Bargo was sentenced to death again by a unanimous vote.
How did Seath Jackson live?
At the time of his death, Seath Jackson was 15 years old and lived in Belleview, Florida. His parents said that he was happy, friendly, funny, and that “all the girls liked him.”
Seath began dating Amber Wright, who was also 15 and in her class in high school. But there seem to be cracks in their relationship after a certain amount of time. Jackson said on his Facebook page that Amber was cheating on him after he found out that she was dating 18-year-old Michael Bargo.
Amber Wright took Seath Jackson to Charlie Ely’s house on April 17, 2011, at the request of Bargo, who was 18 at the time, so that Bargo, Kyle Hooper, and Justin Soto could ambush Jackson and kill him.
Bargo planned to keep the victim alive after the first attack so he could kill him and the victim would know who killed him before he died.
Even though the victim was still in the bathroom, Bargo beat him, yelled at him, and kept shooting at him. Bargo finally shot the man in the face, killing him. Then, Bargo and Soto put the body of the victim in a sleeping bag and took it to Ely’s fire pit, where they lit a fire.
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