Three people — a 16-year-old girl and two 18-year-old men — have been charged with first-degree murder in the death of Orthodox-Jewish mixed martial arts fighter Aaron Rajman, killed in his suburban Boca Raton home, the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office said.

Summer Church, Roberto Ortiz and Jace Swinton are also charged with two counts apiece of home invasion with a firearm or other deadly weapon.

All three are being charged as adults. They appeared Saturday before a judge in West Palm Beach and were denied bail.

Church, who lives in suburban Boca Raton, was arrested Friday morning as she was being driven to classes at Olympic Heights High School by her mother. Church is an 11th grader.

Ortiz, a Boynton Beach resident, and Swinton, who lives in Margate, were also arrested Friday and booked into the jail.

“I’m grateful they were caught,” Emily Imber, a former friend of Rajman’s, said Friday. “I hope they get all of them. This has been devastating.”

Judi Church, who went to her daughter’s arraignment, has told local media that cops are accusing Summer of being the mastermind, but she says her daughter is an innocent victim who was used to set-up Rajman.

She told the Florida Sun-Sentinel that a group of men that inlcuded Ortiz and Swinton forced her daughter at gunpoint to get in a car and call Rajman to see if he was home.

“They made Summer get in the car, and they made her make that phone call,” Church told the paper.

She said her daughter was not a bad kid, that she was trying to do good in school and that she wants to go to nursing school when she graduates high school.

“The state attorney needed to arrest somebody, and they decided she was the criminal mastermind behind all this even though she told them everything she knows,” she said, according to the paper.

Church also told the paper that her daughter wasn’t at the scene when Rajman was killed.

“This was no random act of violence,” Palm Beach County State Attorney Dave Aronberg said in a statement issued Friday afternoon. “Mr. Rajman was targeted by these defendants, and we intend to seek justice for the victim and his family.”

AS YWN REPORTED at the time, Aaron Rajman, a professional Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighter, was killed in an apparent home invasion the night of July 13, at his home in Boca Raton, Florida. He was 25.

The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office said a group of men entered a single family residence on the 22700 block of 65th Terrace in Boca Raton. A fight then broke out, resulting in gunfire that killed Rajman A”H.

Rajman was 2-2 in his professional MMA career, following a very successful amateur career.

He was famous for entering the arena wearing Tzitzis and a Yarmulka.

His entrance music was ‘Indestructible” by Matisyahu. The media nicknamed him the “Matza Brawler.”

(Nat Golden – YWN)