ST JAMES, Jamaica -- A 14-year-old boy was Friday morning arrested in connection with the brutal killing of nine-year-old Romaine Robinson, whose body was found bound and gagged in bushes in Plantation Heights, St James, on Thursday.
Information reaching OBSERVER ONLINE is that the boy is likely to be charged for Romaine's murder.
Reports are that both boys had an altercation sometime shortly before the murder.
The police have denied earlier reports that the 14-year-old has confessed to murdering nine-year-old Romaine. |
| Gwendolyn Todd-Foster, grandmother of nine-year-old Romaine Robinson, and Robert Anderson, a community member, reflect on the death of the little boy, Thursday. (PHOTO: ALAN LEWIN) |
Earlier today, the police reported that a 14-year-old Cambridge High School male student confessed to the killing. The teenage boy, who reportedly committed the murder, was arrested by the St James police this morning. It is reported that the teen who also resides in Plantation Heights fought with the nine-year-old boy before killing him.
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The police say arrangements are being made for the teen to be questioned in the presence of his parents and attorneys. Romaine Robinson, a grade-three student at the Bickersteth Primary School, was found by a citizen who stumbled upon his bloodied body about 4:30 yesterday morning. Excerpted from the Observer and The Gleaner.
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