(NewsNation) — A sheriff in Florida says the suspects connected to the death of Danika Troy alleging name calling as their motive doesn’t match up to the facts his department has uncovered.

“To me, it doesn’t,” Santa Rosa County Sheriff Bob Johnson told “Banfield” on Tuesday. “I mean, if you call somebody a name in eighth grade or whatever, how many name-calling fights end up with somebody being shot and burned to death? It just doesn’t add up to me.”

Troy, 14, was found shot and burned in a wooded area earlier this week after she was reported as a runaway by her mother. Troy’s mother said her daughter didn’t come home Nov. 30.

Police said Troy, who had an electric scooter with her, was allegedly lured into a wooded area by the two boys, ages 14 and 16. Johnson alleges the 16-year-old boy shot Troy with a handgun he stole from his mother. The boys were arrested and charged with first-degree premeditated murder.

Detectives said the boys claimed a social media dispute was behind the tragic act, stating Danika had blocked the 14-year-old and called the 16-year-old a worthless gangbanger.

“There was something else going on, and we don’t know what that is,” Johnson said. “My detectives interviewed them both, and they stuck with the story of, ‘Yeah, they got called a name, so that’s why they killed her.'”

No evidence boys were helped or encouraged in Troy’s death: Sheriff

Johnson said his department has no evidence the boys were helped or encouraged by another person to kill Troy.

However, he said the act was one of the worst things he’s seen in his 44 years as a police officer.

“When you talk about what they did, it’s just pure evil,” Johnson said. “But, 14-and 16-year-olds to come up with this plan and to execute a young girl like this, there’s no other reason I can think of other than just pure evil.”

Johnson remains hopeful the teens will be charged as adults after the state attorney’s office sends the case to a grand jury with all the information it has gathered.