#FAMILY SOUGHT REVENGE AGAINST TORMENTOR. THEY TRIAL#
Defense attorney John Grant describes the scene of a shooting on Thanksgiving morning in 2010 while delivering opening statements during the murder trial for Michael Keetley. “It was a very excruciating 12 years and two trials later,” Cantu's brother, Frankie Cantu, said, while alongside his brother. He laughed and said, ‘Don’t worry the kid will be taken care of. (My ex called the roommate’s baby daddy and filled him in on what she was doing. Richard Cantu, a cousin of the Guitrons who was shot in the head during the attack, believes, along with his family, that justice has finally been served as they await Keetley's sentencing.Ĭantu suffered brain damage as a result of his injury and has had to relearn to walk and talk, while his family waited more than a decade and endured a 2020 trial that ended with a hopelessly deadlocked jury. The day after, the roommate’s daughter left for a 2-month trip with her dad. Quezada said the attack devastated her family and the lives of the others who were severely wounded. Keetley had been frustrated with law enforcement’s investigation of the robbery, prosecutors said, which left him wounded and in need of physical therapy. He faces life in prison without parole.ĭuring the trial, prosecutors said Keetley had become obsessed with revenge after he was robbed and shot while on his ice cream route about a year before the murders. Michael Keetley, a former ice cream truck driver, was convicted in March of two counts of murder and four counts of attempted murder in the attacks. Ivy Ceballo / Tampa Bay Times via ZUMA / Alamy Paz Quezada, the mother of Juan and Sergio Guitron, after a guilty verdict was read in the retrial of Michael Keetley in Tampa, Fla., on March 28. Juan Guitron, 28, and Sergio Guitron, 22, were fatally shot, and four others were severely wounded in November 2010 on the front porch of a home in Ruskin, Florida, where family and friends had gathered to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday. She said she prayed for the strength to live to see the day her sons would have justice. “I keep fighting for my sons. “It’s the best gift God could give me,” Quezada, told NBC News through tears.
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