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Inset: Yahkeim Lollar (YouTube/HEBC). Background: Jahara Malik (WTVJ).
A Florida teen connected Monday admitted to stabbing her fellow to decease conscionable days earlier Christmas portion they were "horseplaying" with a knife successful a parking garage.
Jahara Malik, 18, pleaded blameworthy to manslaughter with a deadly limb successful the decease of 17-year-old Yahkeim Lollar successful Miami. She's slated to beryllium sentenced connected April 13.
"I privation the max," Lollar's parent Nathalie Jean told local NBC affiliate WTVJ. "That is what I want. A beingness for a life. She took my son's beingness for nary reason. She took my son's beingness due to the fact that helium was honorable with her that helium didn't privation to beryllium with her. And she not realizing her actions, her behaviour and her entitlement is the crushed wherefore helium didn't privation to beryllium with her."
According to an apprehension affidavit obtained by Law&Crime, Miami constabulary responded astir 11 p.m. connected Dec. 20, 2024, to a study of a stabbing successful the parking store astatine Lollar's flat analyzable successful the 6100 artifact of Northwest Sixth Court. Paramedics rushed him to a hospital, wherever helium died.
Per the affidavit, Malik, past 17, was acceptable to spell buying with a person connected the time successful question. Before she left, she was looking for the capsicum spray she typically utilized for extortion but could not find it, truthful she grabbed a weapon instead, the affidavit said. After shopping, she went to conscionable with Lollar successful the parking garage. The 2 were "horseplaying" and she someway ended up stabbing him successful the chest.
Jean ne'er bought the horseplaying argument.
"Her full defence is horseplaying. Who horseplays with a knife? You [learn] arsenic a kid that you don't play with crisp objects, right?" she told WTVJ aft a enslaved proceeding past year.
As Law&Crime previously reported, surveillance video showed Malik dropping the weapon successful the parking garage. A information of Malik's connection to constabulary was redacted from the affidavit. A aesculapian examiner deemed the decease a homicide a fewer weeks aft the stabbing.
Malik's lawyer noted that the teen stayed down to render assistance aft the stabbing. Malik has not been arrested earlier this incident, the lawyer said. The lawyer told CBS affiliate WFOR that the stabbing was not intentional.
The victim's father, Darveed Lollar, said the sidesplitting didn't person to happen.
"By idiosyncratic conscionable playing, they took my boy's life," helium told ABC affiliate WPLG. "That's what they said. They [were] playing."
The household has been frustrated that it took truthful agelong to enactment Malik down bars, contempt knowing she was the 1 liable for the homicide.
"They couldn't find thing to complaint her with the nighttime of, erstwhile determination was nary question arsenic to what happened oregon who [did] this, truthful I mean it's, close now, it's a small bittersweet," Darveed Lollar told WTVJ.
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