Woman dead after Tamarac apartment fire
FORT LAUDERDALE - A mother in disbelief, Juliet Brabham is stunned, telling us her daughter Keera is dead. She was found inside her burning Tamarac condo.
"My daughter's gone. She was at my house yesterday. We had Christmas dinner yesterday. We spoke yesterday. She did not deserve to die," Juliet said.
Tamarac Fire Rescue got a call about 3:30 in the morning, saying a condo unit was on fire in the 7900 block of Colony Circle South.
Brian Marti lives next door. "I was terrified. I was terrified. The banging the screaming. The, 'Call 911.'
Marti said about 3:40 in the morning he heard a commotion coming from Keera's unit just moments before the fire.
"It was just screaming and yelling. As soon as I walk out I see smoke coming out of the windows, the cracks of the door, that's it," Marti said.
Stephanie Gladman is Keera's sister. She and the family are trying to piece together what happened in those final moments.
"There's things on the ring camera, I was told by the detective," Juliet said.
Stephanie was with her just hours before the deadly blaze.
"My sister, herself and my friends, we went out last night to the club. While we were in the club she tapped me on my shoulder to let me know that this guy was texting her weird things. She said he's being a stalker," Stephanie said.
The family believes they know who that is. In the meantime, they're trying to figure out what to tell Keera's little boy, who is now without a mother.
"She has a 4-year-old child now that we have to raise. We have to tell him his mother's gone. It's not fair," Juliet said.
BSO is investigating. Homicide detectives are not releasing much information. They're waiting on autopsy results to find out how she died.