Detective Rod Demery recalls the case of grandfather Ronnie Robinson on Murder Chose Me, a man who was beaten to death by some unlikely attackers.
Shreveport, Louisiana, at 4:50 a.m. on July 11, 2010, and police were called to investigate reports of a man in distress on the sidewalk. They found a badly beaten man who was later identified as 47-year-old Ronnie D. Robinson. He was rushed to hospital but died of injuries a few days later.
There were few clues at the scene of the beating but when Demery visits Robinson’s employer he gets a tip that the grandfather was having a few problems with someone close to where he lived, with his family giving further clues as to who his attackers might be.
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Police initially arrested two boys, one 12 and the other 13, and charged them with battery, but this was before Robinson died in hospital. After he’d died they arrested a 17-year-old and charged him with second-degree murder, upgrading the charges against the boys to second-degree murder as well.
Detective Demery explains how he solved the case and why two children became involved in such a violent attack.
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