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FOX35 interview with
Michael Bargo, youngest person on Florida's death row
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Man
sentenced to death row for killing, dismembering Summerfield teen in 2011
By: Christopher Boyce , Myrt Price
Updated: Apr 9, 2019 - 5:42 PM
OCALA, Fla. - A convicted killer was sentenced to
death row for killing a friend in a Summerfield home by cutting him up and then
setting his remains on fire Tuesday.
Michael Bargo was sentenced to death row for the
murder of 15-year-old Seath Jackson in 2011 for the second time, but the court
re-did the sentence because the jury's decision was not unanimous the first
time.
Jurors deliberated for nearly five hours before
handing down the sentence.
The defense asked the jury to consider that Bargo
was only 18-years-old at the time of the murder and his brain wasn't fully
mature at the time.
Bargo's defense also argued that he wasn't the
mastermind behind the murder.
In April 2011, Amber Wright, then 18, lured Jackson
into a Summerfield home. Michael Bargo and three others killed Jackson, burned
his body, stuffed the remains in paint pockets, and dumped them in a rock
quarry in Ocala.
The state argued that Bargo didn't show any mental
health issues when he carried out the crime.
The murder of Jackson was so gruesome that
detectives said they'd never encountered anything like it before at the time.
Four other people are serving life sentences in
connection to the murder: Justin Soto, Charlie Ely, Kyle Hooper and Amber
Wright. An Ocala man, James Young Havens III, faces up to 30 years in prison
for helping dispose of Jackson's body.
