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Teen wanted to 'catch a body,' jury told

by LarryDeezell | August 27, 2009 at 09:12 am

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On July 10, 2007 in Castor Gardens, Philadelphia on the 1300 block of Greenby St. a man, Kwok Wai Ho, 69 yrs. old died from a head injury at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital after he was beaten and "robbed" by Marquis Walker-Williams. The Walker-William trial's opening day was on Tuesday with the witness's Kyhree Greennagh, Maurice Kemp and Tyhara Cobb, all of Walker-Williams friends that where with him before he said "Ya'll want to catch a body?" Meaning assault a complete stanger and flee.

He is charged with general murder, meaning that if found guilty the jury will decide what degree of murder was committed.

Walker-Williams and his friends walked by Kwon Wai Ho, then Walker-Williams decided to stangle Wai Ho, a nieghbor seen what was going on and yelled at Walker-Williams. He then dropped Wai Ho, causing Wai Ho to have a head injury.

"He was attempting to rob him; he didn't mean to kill him," Greennagh said on the witness stand yesterday.

Greennagh said that he cautioned Walker-Williams against targeting Ho because the neighbor was on her front porch.

Maurice Kemp, 19, said that he also thought that it was a bad idea because Ho - who was of Chinese descent - was a friendly man who regularly walked the Northeast community.

Tyhara Cobb, 16, who was also in the group of boys, said that he had warned Walker-Williams: "Don't touch him, he's too old."

"I was stunned," Cobb told the jury. "I was shocked."

The trial had a rought start, when three spectators made threatening comments to the witness's. Judge Shelly Robins ejected them and told them " if they are spotted in the building during the trial, they would be in contempt of her order and jailed for six months".

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jazzyzazzy

at 11:03 on August 27th, 2009

Dont think it will be deemed a good phrase.....................Catch A body.!!!!!!!!!!!! not cool or clever. Our street culture just seems to get worse and the offenders are getting younger and younger. Scary.

Suicide King (not verified)

at 12:00 on October 29th, 2009

Well, just another nigger thinking he is tough, beating up an an elderly gentleman.... Yea, real "gangsta"..really tough he was.. Niggers are definitley the fall of our society ....and if not..think about this for a moment.. If all of a sudden tomorrow, niggers disappeared from the human race..would the crime rate increase or decrease dramatically? (I know we all just thought in our heads "decrease") Yea, yea, all niggers are not bad....but (the majority) are....