St James man charged with murder

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St James man charged with murder

Thirty-six-year-old Rohan Correll, otherwise called ‘Frass’, of John’s Hall district in St James will face the Black River Parish Court on Friday on charged of murder, illegal possession of firearm and ammunition and robbery with...

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