LONGBOAT KEY, Fla. (WFLA) — A man has been arrested in connection with the 2017 double murder at the Zota Beach Resort, a case that has haunted investigators and the Longboat Key community for years.
It was a summer night when two employees, security guard Kevin Carter and front desk manager Timothy Hurley, were shot execution-style during an armed robbery at the beachfront resort. For years, the alleged gunman remained at large.
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“Yeah, we were shocked, you know, hoping to develop leads, and hoping it wouldn’t take seven years to arrest all the people involved,” said Capt. Robert Bourque with the Longboat Key Police Department.
Detectives charged Damien Garvin, a convicted felon, with first-degree murder. He was already behind bars for an unrelated crime in South Florida, a 2020 shooting outside a convenience store in North Miami Beach.
“North Miami Beach Police Department made an arrest of Damien Garvin, and so while searching law enforcement databases that we have access to, we saw that he had been arrested, and that arrest involved a gun. It was a couple of years after the murders at the Zota,” Bourque said…