GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – A judge Tuesday turned down a request to dismiss homicide charges against a 16-year-old Milwaukee boy charged in a murder in a pharmacy parking lot.
Jeremiah Robinson, then 15, allegedly shot and killed a 31-year-old man Feb. 18 outside the Walgreens store on the corner of Oneida and Mason streets.
Robinson’s attorney argued there wasn’t enough evidence presented at a preliminary hearing to order the teen to stand trial. But during a hearing Tuesday, Judge Thomas Walsh rejected the motion.
Although the findings made by the court commissioner at the preliminary hearing could have been more precise, the sum total of evidence presented – including the criminal complaint – is enough to support a decision to order Robinson to stand trial.
No trial date has been set. Robinson returns to court Aug. 30 for a status conference. He has pleaded not guilty.
According to the criminal complaint, Robinson and another man, Jeromy Finke, got into a confrontation with the victim and another man over money during a drug deal. Robinson told police the dispute carried over to the outside of the store, and he shot the victim in self-defense after being threatened with brass knuckles.
The criminal complaint says the victim, identified only by his initials, was shot four times.
In Wisconsin, suspects ages 10 and older in homicide and attempted homicide cases are tried in adult court.
