Herald staff
Two brothers who are suspects in the murder of Everett High School student Joshua Lorbiecki turned themselves in at the King County Jail Tuesday.
Police had charged Emanuel Robert Wilson, 16 and Fernando Troy Wilson, 18, with first-degree murder last week but had been unable to locate them.
They are among four people charged in the murder of 15-year-old Joshua, who died Nov. 17 after being severely beaten and abandoned on a school football field.
The Wilsons’ cousin — Steven Limar — fled to Alabama but turned himself in at the end of November. The fourth suspect — Lynnwood resident Matthew Dominic Teague — has not yet been found.
The Wilson brothers showed up on their own at the King County jail Tuesday, where the arrest warrants were served, said Sgt. Boyd Bryant, Everett Police Department spokesman. They were being held there Tuesday night, each on $250,000 bail.
The four are accused of beating Joshua in the head with a baseball bat in a robbery attempt and leaving him to die on the football field at Evergreen Middle School.
They lured the teen-ager there by promising to sell him $400 worth of marijuana, but intended to take the money instead, court documents state.
The brothers told friends and relatives that things got out of hand when they decided to rough the teen-ager up, the documents state. Limar also told police he saw Emanuel Wilson hit Joshua at least twice with a small bat. Although the younger brother is a juvenile, the gravity of the charge means he will automatically be tried as an adult.
The would-be robbers didn’t find the $400 stashed in Joshua’s pocket. They fled the scene with only $12 after noticing they were being watched.
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