- (AP) -- Two teenagers have told Volusia County sheriff's
investigators that they killed a homeless man for fun and something to
do.
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- Christopher Scamahorn, 14, and Jeffery Spurgeon, 18,
confessed to beating the 53-year-old victim with their fists and sticks
and kicking him, sheriff's spokesman Brandon Haught said Sunday. They went
back to the woods three times after the initial attack to beat the man
again.
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- The teens said they attacked the man "for fun"
and "to have something to do," Haught said. A group of teenagers
found the victim Saturday, and the condition of the body indicated he had
been dead for several days.
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- Spurgeon's mother told investigators Saturday that she
heard there might be a body in the woods. She later told investigators
that her son might have been involved.
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- The teens found the man in the woods Wednesday and harassed
him, Haught said. Spurgeon said he punched the man in the face and left.
The pair returned a short time later and kicked the man and beat him with
sticks, Haught said.
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- Scamahorn also told investigators that he dropped a large
log on the man's ribs, and Spurgeon jumped on the log several times.
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- An autopsy performed Sunday determined that the man died
from blunt force trauma to the head and body, Haught said. The victim's
name has not been released.
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- "We're trying to find next of kin," Haught
said Monday. "He apparently doesn't have any next of kin nearby."
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- The pair were charged with murder Sunday. Spurgeon was
being held without bail at the branch jail in Daytona Beach. Scamahorn
taken to a juvenile jail.
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- Investigators said there may be more arrests.
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