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Teen Murder Suspect To Be Tried As Adult

WCBE 90.5FM | By Jim Letizia
Published January 14, 2014 at 7:02 AM EST

The Columbus teenager charged in a fatal crime spree last year will be tried as an adult. A Franklin County Juvenile Court Judge bound 17-year-old Devonere Simmonds over yesterday, allowing a grand jury to consider aggravated murder charges. Simmonds is charged with killing 22-year-old Quinten Prater and 34-year-old Imran Ashgar, and seriously wounding 39-year-old William Rudd last July in a series of robberies in Columbus and Madison County. 18-year-old Nathaniel Brunner is also charged in Ashgar’s death and the shooting of Rudd. 19-year-old Darrel Durham has been sentenced to 15 years in prison in Ashgar’s death.

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Jim Letizia
Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.
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