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Teens arrested in death of boy found in trash
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published February 18, 2007
MIAMI - Four teenagers were arrested Saturday in the death of a boy whose decomposed body was found in a trash bin, police said. Quintin A. Barnett, 15, was arrested on one count each of second-degree murder and tampering with evidence. Aspen Thermilus, 16, Keon Williams, 14, and Johnny Randle, 16, were each arrested on one count of accessory after the fact in a murder. The Miami teens were being held in juvenile detention, Miami police spokesman Delrish Moss said. All four confessed to their involvement in the death of 14-year-old Rod K. Williams, though their individual accounts differed as to how he died Feb. 2 at Randle's house, police said. Barnett told investigators that Williams had been recklessly playing with a gun, and the gun fired in a struggle to take it away from him. Another told police he heard a gunshot from another room and found Barnett holding a gun as he stood over Williams, and the others said Barnett told them conflicting stories before showing them Williams' body in the back yard. The four admitted placing Williams' body in plastic bags, then in a large garbage bin near warehouses in Miami's Little Haiti neighborhood, police said. The body was found Feb. 9.
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by AJ
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08/28/07 03:35 PM
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I never met this kid, but nothing I ever heard or saw on the news ever affected me like this story. 14 years old..take just a moment to really process it, it should blow you away. There's a way to keep our kids alive-love them. Know where they are.
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by Robert
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08/24/07 01:15 AM
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RIGHT!!!! People kill people. Not guns or T.V. Lack of parental rsponsibilty is obvoius. There is no secret to raising a successful person. You invest the time and effort. This is what happens when you don't. Both suspect and victim.
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by vincent
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07/10/07 08:51 PM
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accidents do happen but that is a very sad story it gave me goose backs
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by JAMAR
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05/03/07 10:29 PM
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THAT WAS MY FRIEND AND I FELT SORRY ABOUT WHAT HAPPEN.I KNEW HIM FROM WHEN HE FIRST CAMED TO DANIA FL.WITH HIS SISTER.ME AND ROD WAS HUMMIES BEFORE HE WENT TO MIAMI AND THEN BOOM...NOW HE'S DEAD.
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by bronte
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03/19/07 03:14 AM
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ew. its a pitty to see what people my age are doing across the globe. here boys are there for fun, and after fun finishes its friends in most cases. but in the US its murder. this isnt right. they shouldnt be damaging their future like this.
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by Lee
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02/19/07 01:10 AM
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where were the parents?
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by jeff
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02/18/07 10:04 PM
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another shining example of failure of the parents to supervise their children, and the decline if the family unit, guns don't kill people, people kill people.
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by andy
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02/18/07 05:54 PM
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Such an inhuman waste.. where have the morals and ethics in this world gone... not even human decency is shown in this.. and to think after juvy hall... these (kids) with no decency will be back among us...
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by robert
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02/18/07 06:55 AM
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young monsters.....TV taught them!!
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