By Jim Haley
Herald Writer
Two more teen-agers were charged Wednesday with first-degree murder in the Nov. 17 beating death of 15-year-old Joshua Lorbiecki.
Brothers Emanuel Robert Wilson, 16, and Fernando Troy Wilson, 18, are being sought in connection with the death of the popular sophomore who had recently transferred to Everett High School.
Deputy prosecutor Mark Roe is asking for arrest warrants and $250,000 bail for both of them. Their whereabouts are unknown, according to charging papers.
Likewise, Everett police don’t know the location of the third of the four defendants, Matthew Dominic Teague, 18.
The last defendant, former Everett High School basketball star Steven Limar, 20, was arrested in Alabama and talked with Everett police detectives.
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 planned to rob Joshua, luring him to the field on the pretense of selling him $400 of marijuana, court papers said.
The Wilson brothers were added after Limar tearfully admitted his involvement and implicated the other three, deputy prosecutor Mark Roe said. Friends and relatives of the brothers said they admitted taking part in the incident and that "it went too far, got out of hand," court documents said.
The Wilson brothers are Limar’s cousins, and the incident took a deadly turn when the four decided "to rough him up" instead of selling Joshua the marijuana.
According to court documents, the Wilson brothers were supposed walk up behind Joshua, Limar and Teague and supposedly rob them.
The idea was to later split the money.
"No one was supposed to get hurt," Limar told police. "They were supposed to just push us to the ground or whatever, act like they had a gun."
Limar told officers that he saw Emanuel Wilson strike Joshua at least twice in the head with a small, souvenir-type bat.
Although Emanuel Wilson is a juvenile, the seriousness of the charge means he would automatically be tried as an adult.
You can call Herald Writer Jim Haley at 425-339-3447 or send e-mail to haley@heraldnet.com.
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