BERLIN — A Berlin teen charged with first-degree murder in May after an apparent altercation with another teen will be tried as an adult and the state will seek a sentence of life without parole.
Around 6:15 p.m. on May 21, Berlin Police responded to a wooded area behind an apartment complex near Route 113 for a reported altercation that had occurred. Berlin Police responded to the area after a suspect identified as Vershawn Hudson-Crawford, 16, of Berlin, walked to the department’s headquarters with his mother and grandmother to report he had been involved in a fight.
During the course of the conversation, investigators learned the location of the victim, later identified as Dehaven Nichols, 17, of Berlin, in the wooded area. Berlin Police responded and found Nichols unresponsive in the wooded area. He was pronounced deceased at the scene by Berlin EMS.
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It'll never happen. This POS will be on the streets in less than 20 years.
ReplyDeleteI'd be curious to know the circumstances of the fight. My guess would be that the victim was bludgeoned to death (to constitute the murder charges) Back in my day, if you got in a fight and lost, you still lived to see another day. Not so much with this younger generation.
ReplyDeleteThe circumstances are disturbing to say the least.
DeleteI believe in strong justice, but life without parole is pretty tough for a 16 year old, no matter how agregious.
ReplyDeleteCant do the time, don't do the crime!
DeleteDisagree, I would not care the age of a suspect if they killed my child... a 16 year old knows the severity of killing someone....
DeleteI agree with 10:20
DeleteI agree 8:31
ReplyDeleteThat is a rough sentence for a teenager.
ReplyDeleteWould you say it was a rougher sentence than what the teenagers victim got?
DeleteHell no !!!
DeleteHow about the rough sentence for the victim? He is gone forever...the circumstances ARE exceptionally disturbing-when all comes out in the trial, then people will understand seeking life without parole. If it was YOUR child, 8:31 and 9:11 you may feel differently about the sentence.
ReplyDeleteBASEBALL BAT!!! Beat him to death! Should be death penalty.
ReplyDelete14 year olds know right from wrong.
ReplyDeleteno excuses here for the ‘killer’
An eye for an eye. You take a life, you forfeit your own. Thou shalt not kill.
ReplyDelete@ 6:33 The killer is not 14...he is 16. But yes, I agree, even a 14 yr old knows it is wrong to kill somebody. Even the " I can do whatever I want" generation knows that.
ReplyDelete@8:31 and so it beating someone to death with a baseball bat then going home!
ReplyDelete"...a suspect identified as Vershawn Hudson-Crawford, 16, of Berlin, walked to the department’s headquarters with his mother and grandmother to report he had been involved in a fight."
ReplyDeleteI bet they thought since they walked to the PD to report the fight he would be found innocent. No, Jack Ass, you left that boy their to die.
It's not long enough.
ReplyDeletePointless to even mention life in prison. Not going to happen. He's a teen, a minor, and just because you charge him as an adult does not overwrite the supreme courts mandate that all juveniles have protection from life in prison.
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