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Timeline: Boy who confessed to stabbing 9-year-old to death goes to trial

09/01/2015 7:31 am PDT
WXMI
On Monday jury selection for the trial for 13-year-old Jamarion Lawhorn completed, one year after he was accused of stabbing a 9 year old boy to death on a Kentwood playground.

"(WXMI) -- GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- On Monday jury selection for the trial for 13-year-old Jamarion Lawhorn completed, one year after he was accused of stabbing a 9 year old boy to death on a Kentwood playground.

"Lawhorn, who was 12 at the time of the alleged crime, is the youngest person ever accused of murder in Kent County. In May a judge ruled Lawhorn is competent to stand trial for the stabbing death of 9-year-old Connor Verkerke."

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