The Bobster
09-09-2009, 04:25 PM
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Beau busted in runaway's stab slaying after fight over pot lacing; body found in alley garbage
BY Sindhu Sundar and Rocco Parascandola
DAILY NEWS WRITERS
Wednesday, September 9th 2009, 4:00 AM
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Darrell Spencer in the back of a NYPD police car.
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MySpace picture of Jamia Hazel, who was stabbed to death and dumped in the alley of the Mount Eden home of suspect Darrell Spencer, police said.
A 23-year-old pothead was charged on Tuesday with murdering his sometime girlfriend - a teen runaway he stabbed, wrapped in garbage bags and dumped in a Bronx alley, police sources said.
Jamia Hazel, 17, was stabbed more than two dozen times and dumped in the alleyway of the Mount Eden home of suspect Darrell Spencer, police sources said.
He was charged with murder and weapons possession after another girlfriend, Erena Willis, 21, identified him as the killer and admitted helping him dump the body, sources said.
Willis was charged with hindering prosecution.
Sources said Spencer offered up a self-serving explanation. He told detectives Hazel tried to stab him after he accused her of "putting something" in his marijuana. He said he grabbed the knife and stabbed Hazel more than two dozen times.
Cynthia Marshall, Hazel's foster mother, said the girl talked recently about wanting to turn her life around by getting a GED and studying to be an anesthesiologist.
But Hazel couldn't break her bad habits, Marshall said, staying out past curfew, dating older men and spending too much time on the streets.
"She was just the type of girl who would do whatever she wanted to do," Marshall said at the Bushwick home where Hazel lived for two months, before walking out in July. "It's just so much easier to do the wrong thing."
Marshall said all she has left is a memory of the day the girl stormed from her home.
"It's not you, it's me," Marshall remembers her foster daughter saying. "I'm just not used to people telling me what to do. I'm leaving. I'm out of here."
Hazel was pretty, with a bubbly personality, her foster mom said, but was too flirtatious for her liking.
On her MySpace page, Hazel described herself as 19 years old and is seen wearing a "I Recycle Men" T-shirt. She jokes about "taking boyfriend applications."
Beau busted in runaway's stab slaying after fight over pot lacing; body found in alley garbage
BY Sindhu Sundar and Rocco Parascandola
DAILY NEWS WRITERS
Wednesday, September 9th 2009, 4:00 AM
http://assets./img/2009/09/09/alg_spencer.jpg
Darrell Spencer in the back of a NYPD police car.
http://assets./img/2009/09/09/amd_hazel.jpg
MySpace picture of Jamia Hazel, who was stabbed to death and dumped in the alley of the Mount Eden home of suspect Darrell Spencer, police said.
A 23-year-old pothead was charged on Tuesday with murdering his sometime girlfriend - a teen runaway he stabbed, wrapped in garbage bags and dumped in a Bronx alley, police sources said.
Jamia Hazel, 17, was stabbed more than two dozen times and dumped in the alleyway of the Mount Eden home of suspect Darrell Spencer, police sources said.
He was charged with murder and weapons possession after another girlfriend, Erena Willis, 21, identified him as the killer and admitted helping him dump the body, sources said.
Willis was charged with hindering prosecution.
Sources said Spencer offered up a self-serving explanation. He told detectives Hazel tried to stab him after he accused her of "putting something" in his marijuana. He said he grabbed the knife and stabbed Hazel more than two dozen times.
Cynthia Marshall, Hazel's foster mother, said the girl talked recently about wanting to turn her life around by getting a GED and studying to be an anesthesiologist.
But Hazel couldn't break her bad habits, Marshall said, staying out past curfew, dating older men and spending too much time on the streets.
"She was just the type of girl who would do whatever she wanted to do," Marshall said at the Bushwick home where Hazel lived for two months, before walking out in July. "It's just so much easier to do the wrong thing."
Marshall said all she has left is a memory of the day the girl stormed from her home.
"It's not you, it's me," Marshall remembers her foster daughter saying. "I'm just not used to people telling me what to do. I'm leaving. I'm out of here."
Hazel was pretty, with a bubbly personality, her foster mom said, but was too flirtatious for her liking.
On her MySpace page, Hazel described herself as 19 years old and is seen wearing a "I Recycle Men" T-shirt. She jokes about "taking boyfriend applications."