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An escort has been arrested, accused of luring a man to his death during a Floridarobbery which ended in murder.

Koral Ben Shimon, 20, is the third person to be arrested for the murder of Gustavo Cabral, who was shot in the head in an abandoned house on December 1st.

Ben Shimon has been charged with participating in the robbery, kidnapping and murder, along with Jefty Joseph and Ilmart Christophe, both 20.

Police say 31-year-old Cabral met with an escort at the Super 8 Motel in Florida's Pompano Beach after replying to an ad on classifieds website Backpage.com, where Ben Shimon said she was "looking to have an amazing time."

According to the Palm Beach County Sherriff's Office, when they arrived at the room, Joseph and Christophe burst out of the bathroom, masked and armed. He was tied up and forced at gunpoint to increase his credit card limits.

He was then driven to a series of banks and forced to withdraw cash.

Investigators say he was then taken to an abandoned house in Lake Worth, where he was shot dead in the garage.

Locals say they saw three men enter the property. Gunshots were heard, then only two men left.

Surveillance footage shows the victim with Ben Shimon, Joseph and Christophe at the motel in the hours before his death.

Christophe and Joseph were both arrested on December 1st, and have been held in Palm Beach County Jail since then, pending trial. Both men say the other committed the murder.

Ben Shimon was arrested on Wednesday and admitted plotting with the other two defendants to lure the victim to an abandoned house in suburban Lake Worth, where they planned to rob him.

But she told police she didn't know Joseph and Christophe were going to shoot and kill him.

After her arrest, she told investigators Cabral pleaded for his life and was "so scared he could hardly talk."