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July 7, 2006

15-year-old indicted in hair-braiding murder

PROVIDENCE – Phearin Rot, 15, the second-youngest murder defendant in Rhode Island in more than a century, was indicted today in connection with the June 2005 slaying of Jamont Richardson, 14, in a dispute over a $10 debt for hair braiding.

The Providence County grand jury handed up an indictment naming Rot on one count of murder, one count of discharging a firearm while committing a crime of violence, death resulting, and one count of carrying a pistol without a license, according to the attorney general’s office.

Rot will be arraigned in Providence County Superior Court on July 19.

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