Three Florida teenagers — including a 13-year-old — have been charged with murder in connection with the fatal beating of a 64-year-old man in October.
Justin Curry, 13, Robert Pope, 16, and Marcavion Lacey, 19, are all facing murder charges in the death of Roger Borkum, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office.
It has not yet been made public whether any of the three have entered pleas.
Police say officers responded to a report of an aggravated battery in downtown Jacksonville on October 19. Borkum was taken to a hospital, where he died four days later.
Pope and Lacey were arrested and charged shortly after the assault, authorities said. Curry — who was 12 at the time of the alleged attack — was not indicted until Nov. 20.
According to an arrest report for Lacey, he allegedly told investigators that Borkum, a man he did not know, had insulted his “dead homies.”
The report alleges that Lacey and two others, whose names were redacted, attacked Borkum but claimed they did not intend to kill him.
Borkum, a New York native and widower, once ran his own computer consulting business, according to his obituary.
The obituary also noted that he “narrowly escaped death” on September 11, 2001, because his consulting job had ended in July of that year. His former office was on the 77th floor of Tower 1 of the World Trade Center, where his former coworkers were killed in the attacks, the obituary stated.
