KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) — The charge of open murder has been reauthorized for a 16-year-old Kalamazoo teenager.
The Kalamazoo County Office of the Prosecuting Attorney issued a release on Thursday, December 22 stating that the original charges against Kahree L. Compton of one count of open murder and one count of using a firearm to commit a felony have been reauthorized.
According to the release, the victim, 17-year-old Jashan Omar Jones, who was shot by Compton on Friday, December 16 near Interfaith Boulevard on Kalamazoo’s Northside died in the Hospital early Thursday morning, December 22.
The original open murder charge had been amended on Wednesday, December 21 to one count of assault with intent to murder and one count of using a firearm to commit a felony. The amendment was based on evidence that Jones had not died on Saturday, December 17 as previously reported by the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety, but was still on life support as of Wednesday, December 21. But now with the latest development of the victim’s status, the charges against Compton of one count of open murder and one count of using a firearm to commit a felony have been re-authorized.
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