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Three American men are dead.
They weren’t criminals, gang members, or sketchy guys caught up in some shady situation. They were husbands, fathers, and grandfathers. They were friends who came to Florida for a car show. They were waiting for help with their rental car when they were ambushed and murdered.
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And the man now charged with executing them in broad daylight had already been accused of attempted murder just three years ago.
But he didn’t serve time. He was released by a judge after being found not guilty by reason of insanity. That’s why he was out on the streets, free to murder three innocent people.
This isn’t just another tragic crime story. It’s a systems failure story. And when you start tracking the failure, you land on two people: the prosecutor and the judge.
Court documents show that a man charged with killing three men in Osceola County over the weekend was charged with attempted murder in 2021, but was released when a judge found him not guilty by reason of insanity.
Ahmad Jihad Bojeh, 29, has been charged in the shooting deaths of Douglas Kraft, of Columbus, Ohio, Robert Kraft, of Holland, Mich., and James Puchan, of Galena, Ohio, just after noon on Saturday.
Investigators with the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office said the shooting happened outside a residence in the Indian Hill subdivision near Kissimmee. They said Bojeh was quickly located after the shooting and has been charged with three counts of premeditated murder. Sheriff’s Office officials have not released any information on a possible motive for the killings.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, though, noted that Bojeh was free despite being charged with attempted murder in 2021. In that case, a judge found Bojeh’s insanity defense compelling and found him not guilty on Dec. 20, 2022.
The judge found him not guilty by reason of insanity and ordered his release on the condition that he receive mental health treatment and be prohibited from possessing firearms.
Yet he was still able to murder three men in broad daylight. In fact, investigators later found two handguns hidden under his bed.
So the obvious question becomes: how on earth did this happen?
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is publicly criticizing State Attorney Monique Worrell, saying she didn’t challenge the insanity defense in the earlier case.
The My News 13 piece goes on:
He criticized State Attorney Monique Worrell’s handling of the 2021 case, saying in a post on X: “It appears she didn’t put up a fight to Bojeh’s use of the insanity defense, and he was allowed to go free.”
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In response to Uthmeier’s accusations, Worrell released the following statement:
“The Attorney General’s claim shows he fundamentally misunderstands both the facts and the law. This case was fully litigated at trial — where the court, not the prosecutor, determined the outcome after hearing evidence and expert testimony.
Suggesting that a prosecutor failed to ‘put up a fight’ because a judge ruled a defendant incompetent reflects a fundamental lack of understanding of how the criminal legal system works. Prosecutors argue cases within the confines of the law. Judges decide them.
Sure, all of that is technically true. But that doesn’t end the conversation. It starts it.
Because in cases like this, the public doesn’t care about all the procedural finger-pointing. They care about outcomes. and whether dangerous individuals are kept off the streets.
And three families now have to live with the horrific consequences of whatever decisions were made inside that courtroom.
Monique Worrell, the former State Attorney for Florida’s 9th Judicial Circuit (Orange and Osceola counties), was elected in 2020. She’s a soft-on-crime, anti-cop Dem who was so dangerous that Gov. Ron DeSantis suspended her in 2023 for “neglect of duty.” He said her dangerous left-wing policies allowed violent offenders to avoid consequences.
Today, Governor Ron DeSantis announced the suspension of State Attorney Monique Worrell of the 9th Judicial Circuit for neglecting her duty to faithfully prosecute crime in her jurisdiction. Worrell’s practices and policies have too often allowed violent criminals to escape the full consequences of their criminal conduct, thereby endangering the innocent civilians of Orange and Osceola counties. The Governor has the authority to suspend a state officer under Article IV, Section 7 of the Florida Constitution.
Worrell is just another pro-crime Dem. Thankfully, the State Supreme Court agreed and upheld her suspension 6-1.
Florida’s highest court on Thursday rejected an effort by a suspended state attorney to get reinstated after she was removed from office last year by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis in his second suspension of a Democratic prosecutor.
Supreme Court justices voted 6-1 to deny a petition from suspended State Attorney Monique Worrell of the 9th Judicial Circuit, which serves metro Orlando. The majority of justices said they disagreed with her arguments that DeSantis’ reasons for suspending her were too vague or that the suspension infringed on her lawful exercise of prosecutorial discretion.
Judge Keith Carsten was appointed by then-Gov. Rick Scott, so on paper, he’s not some left-wing activist judge. He hasn’t made a bunch of splashy political statements or waved his partisan flag. But that almost makes this worse.
The curious case of Judge Carsten is that he’s actually capable of throwing the book at violent offenders. Back in 2022, Anthony Todt received multiple life sentences for slaughtering his entire family and their dog.
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This is a photo of Anthony Todt:
But back in 2022, he accepted that goofy insanity defense from a man named Ahmad. He signed off on releasing a madman who would later slaughter three innocent people. Judge Carsten allowed a violent offender back on the streets with illegal guns under his bed.
This is a photo of Ahmad Jihad Bojeh.
It’s definitely interesting that the white guy received the harshest possible sentence, as he should have, while this POC defendant did not. We’re not alleging bias or race-based rulings. We’re simply pointing out the outcome and asking fair questions about consistency.
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Clearly, this soft-on-crime agenda isn’t just a Dem problem anymore. It’s creeping into courtrooms everywhere, dressed up as compassion and reform. And when any judge buys into the idea that containment is optional in violent cases, it’s the decent, law-abiding Americans who end up paying for it… with their lives.
The My News 13 piece wraps up:
In their joint statement, family members of victims of Saturday’s triple homicide in Osceola County were described as “beloved husbands, fathers, grandfathers, uncles, brothers and friends.”
“These three wonderful men did not deserve this,” the statement said. “Our families are left with an unexpected, unimaginable loss that cannot be put into words. We ask for privacy, prayers, and respect as we mourn and begin to process this tragedy.
“We are grateful for the outpouring of concern and for the quick response efforts of local law enforcement, the detectives, the medical examiners, and the various state agencies who are assisting with this investigation. Further details will be shared by our families or official representatives when appropriate. For now, please respect our need for space and time to grieve.”
It looks to many like three innocent men are dead because the system chose ideology over public safety.
For years, the left has pushed this idea that black and brown violent offenders deserve extra chances, that incarceration is “harm,” and that with enough treatment and supervision almost anyone can be safely returned to society. They push this idea that “certain” offenders deserve more leniency because the system supposedly failed them first.
That mindset is dangerous.
There aren’t different tiers when it comes to violent crime. There’s no skin-color sliding scale for attempted murder. A criminal who has already shown he’s capable of extreme violence is not some social experiment. He’s a threat and must be treated like one.
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When judges and prosecutors buy into this reform-first, consequences-later hooey, it’s not their safety on the line. It’s the safety of ordinary Americans. And in this case, three decent men paid the ultimate price.
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