Magistrate Ben Barco of the Monrovia City Court at the Temple of Justice on Tuesday June 4, 2024, sent to jail a 28-year-old man for allegedly killing his friend for stolen phone. The incident reportedly occurred in the Baptist Seminary Community on May 17, 2024.
Defendant Jamel Dinerson was charged with Manslaughter, which the Liberia National Police (LNP) said is in violation of Chapter 14, sub-chapter A, section 14.2 of the Revised Penal law of Liberia.
According to police investigation, defendant Dinerson was acquainted with his constitutional rights for his complicity in the death of Kaizer Cooper, who was allegedly gashed with a glass bottle by Dinerson during an altercation.
Police charge sheet reveals that the victim identified Kaizer Cooper on May 17, 2024, a confusion surrounding a button phone ensued between defendant Dinerson and victim Cooper, which led to verbal clash.
The altercation degenerated into a fight between both men at which time defendant Dinerson used a broken bottle on victim Cooper’s right elbow that caused him to bleed profusely.
Accordingly, the community chairman took the victim to a community health center (Tender Medical Clinic) for treatment about but the nurse on duty, Jarru K. Gbarmol, who is also the owner of the health center, said she heard the noise in front of her facility and when she came outside, she saw male victim lying on the ground bleeding.
The Nurse said she briefly spoke with the victim and he provided his mother’s contact number to her but when she placed a call to his mother, Mamie Konah, her response was “I am busy” and hung off the line.
She said when the mother of the victim hung up the phone, she saw the victim’s condition and checked his blood pressure, which registered 7.1.
She served the victim with a bottle of 500ML normal saline (N/S) drip to increase his strength and also sutured the wound to prevent the bleeding and advised that he (victim) be taken at a bigger hospital. The chairman and other community members took him away but later she received information that the victim died.
