A 21-year-old man has pleaded not guilty to raping and fatally stabbing a 13-year-old western New York girl following a party she’d gone to without her family’s knowledge.
Darshawn Morris was ordered held without bail at his arraignment in state Supreme Court Wednesday on charges of second-degree murder, rape and criminal sexual assault.
Morris has been jailed since his arrest Sept. 4, a day after the body of Lanasha (lah-NAY’-shuh) Rollerson was found behind a garage near his home. The day she died, her family had reported her missing and blanketed the neighborhood with missing person fliers after realizing she’d left the house.
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Police arrested Morris after learning he had sought treatment for an undisclosed condition at a Buffalo hospital. Commissioner Daniel Derenda said he confessed to the killing.