Amari Pope didn't like the way an argument between two other teens was going, so he went up to his Columbia Road apartment, got a kitchen knife and returned to plunge it into one of the teens, prosecutors said today.
Pope, 16, was ordered held without bail at his arraignment today for the murder of Deon Hopkins, five weeks shy of his 15th birthday, at the corner of Columbia and Devon Street yesterday afternoon. Under state law, he will be tried as an adult. Read more.