- December 13, 2025
-
-
Loading
Loading
Manatee County prosecutors have charged Damien Jarmard Garvin with first-degree premeditated murder in a 2017 incident at Zota Beach Resort on Longboat Key that left two people dead.
Manatee County Sheriff's officers booked Garvin, 40, July 10 and formally charged him on July 18.
The town of Longboat Key and Longboat Key Det. Capt. Robert Bourque confirmed the charges in a press release on July 18.
Garvin is accused in the Aug. 4, 2017 homicide of a hotel clerk and security guard at the Zota Beach Resort.
Garvin was convicted of a 2020 North Miami Beach murder and was in prison as of a Manatee County court filing in May.
On Aug. 9, 2017, Darryl Hanna Jr. was the first arrested in the case but died in custody. In a 2024 Observer article, Hanna Jr. fell into a stroke-induced coma and died in 2021.
In a court filing dated May 25, a 2020 investigation, led by Bourque, suspected Hanna had accomplices in the murder. Hanna's sister, Latoya and Gernichia Davis were subjects of an investigation.
Court records show on Jan. 8 2020, while searching a law enforcement database, Bourque found that Garvin had been arrested for second degree murder in North Miami Beach. At the time Garvin had a romantic relationship with Latoya Hanna as well as at the time of the 2017 murders.
The North Miami Beach murder was committed with a 9mm pistol, which is the same kind of weapon used in the Zota Beach murders, court records show. According to the filing, ballistics testing showed a link between the shell casings of the pistol of the Zota Beach murders and the North Miami Beach murder.
On Sept. 24, 2020, investigators interviewed Davis who confessed her involvement. She stated she, along with Hanna Jr., Latoya Hanna and Garvin went to the Zota Beach Resort to commit an armed robbery.
Security guard Kevin Carter and clerk Timothy Hurley were killed during the early morning hours. According to Davis' confession, Garvin ordered Hurley to open the safe. Hurley said he did have the combination to the safe, to which Garvin responded that if he did not open the safe he would kill him.
