Johnell Bolds sat at his Ybor City kitchen table Thursday, surrounded by pictures and school memories of the granddaughter he raised.



There's nothing else to look at. She's gone now. Dead. 17 years old. Pushed into a river by her boyfriend, witnesses said.



Jerridedan Lakisha Bolds Froyer was her name; Kiki for short.



She was standing on the bridge over Peace River in Desoto County's Morgan Park, and two days later, they found her body floating three miles downstream.



Desoto County Sheriff's investigators said she refused to jump on a dare from her boyfriend, 28-year-old Mark Huntley, of Tampa.



The witnesses said when he pushed her, she was yelling that she couldn't swim.

She couldn't.

She fell into the river on a Sunday. They found her body on a Tuesday.

According to investigators, Huntley and a friend, Andrew Skevington, 28, of Arcadia, jumped in and tried to save Kiki. She clung to a pylon in 11-feet deep river, desperately trying to save her own life, but the current pulled her away.



"It hurts. It hurts." Bolds was still in shock that Kiki lost her life -- how Kiki lost her life. "The way if feel, if she told them that, and they still did that," Bolds said, "I have a problem with that. To push [her] like that is wrong -- very wrong."



Maybe it was just an ill-advised decision, done on a whim with no ill intent, but Huntley and Skevington allegedly continued with bad decisions as they grabbed Kiki's belongings and fled the scene, investigators said. Kiki floated out of sight down the river, never to be seen alive again.

Now, Huntley faces a manslaughter charge and Skevington is charged as an accessory.



Looking back to how she got there, it came down to a common story of a teenager who was just coming-of-age, but, that's because she was just a common girl who came to tragically die in an unthinkable, uncommon way.



Kiki's grandfather did his best to keep her and her two sisters on the right path and he thought he was. But a few months ago, Kiki started hanging out with people he didn't know and she stopped coming home at night. Investigators said Kiki and Huntley met Skevington at a nightclub in Ybor City sometime that weekend and she never came home again.



She may have gone down a path he tried to keep her from going, but Bolds didn't want to remember his granddaughter for anything other than the girl he thought would be an artist one day. "She was a very talented girl." She won awards for those drawing talents and her academic prowess.



"She was honorable. She just got with the wrong peoples."



The wrong people, investigators said, who would not cooperate with the investigation and refused to identify Kiki's body when it was found.

