Keera Brabham: Florida Mother Killed in Fire; Family Suspects Murder
Keera Brabham, 29, was found dead in an apartment fire about 3:30 a.,. on Tuesday, Dec. 26, 2023. Her family believes she was murdered. An investigation has been launched.
By all accounts, it seemed that a random apartment fire had unfortunately killed 29-year-old Keera Brabham, a licensed esthetician, in Tamarac, Florida in Broward County.
But her family is adamant that the fire that consumed the apartment early Tuesday morning, Dec. 26, 2023, was not an accident. The family is telling local media that Brabham’s former boyfriend allegedly attacked her in a fit of jealous anger.
The Broward County Sheriff’s Office said in a press release that Brabham “was found inside apartment 203 and transported to an area hospital where she was pronounced deceased.”
“She broke up with this guy about three or four weeks ago and listen, if you had a problem, you had to hit her, but if you did, why kill her?” Juliet Brabham, Keera’s mother, told Local 10 TV station. “She has a 4-year-old child that we have to raise now and we have to tell him that his mother is gone. It’s not fair.”
Brabham was a mother of a 4-year-old child, but the child was not in the apartment unit at the time of the fire, according to city law enforcement, who have launched an investigation.
“We’re distraught. Yesterday was Christmas,” Stephanie Gladman, Brabham’s sister, said. “You do this to someone’s family during the holidays, you got to pay.”
“He must have came back here and something must have happened (because) the neighbors say they heard an argument and then a fire, so that’s very suspicious,” Gladman told the media outlet. “She didn’t deserve this. If somebody doesn’t want to be with you, leave that person alone, don’t try to control them.
Cellphone video aired on local TV and obtained from a neighbor shows smoke billowing from the apartment complex.
“I just heard the fire alarm and heard lots of screaming, people telling — telling everybody to get out and evacuate," a female witness told a news crew.
Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to contact BSO Homicide Unit Detective John Curcio at 954-321-4210 or submit a tip through the SaferWatch app. If you wish to remain anonymous, please contact Broward Crime Stoppers at 954-493-TIPS (8477), online
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