Jun 13, 2005

Jamaican Police Charge Three With Murder of U.S. Tourist
The Associated Press


KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) - Jamaican police said Monday they had charged three people, including a teenager, with the murder of a U.S. tourist whose body was found in a shallow grave on the popular vacation island last month.
Damian Miller, 18, Toiseini Timberlake, 24, and Dennis Morrison, 30, were charged with the crime on Sunday, and were scheduled to appear in court on Wednesday, Montego Bay police said in a news release.

The three suspects are accused of killing Stephen King, whose age was not released, of Daytona Beach, Florida.

King was last seen on May 13, when he checked into a Montego Bay hotel with a woman companion. Police say the couple left the hotel in the evening driving a rented car, but that King was not with the woman when she returned to the hotel the following morning and checked out. King had been scheduled to leave the island on May 16.

Authorities would not release the identify of the woman.

Police allege that Miller, Timberlake and Morrison killed King then buried his body in a shallow grave in Iron Shore, an upscale community in Montego Bay.

The body was discovered on May 22 but an initial autopsy was inconclusive. Authorities later positively identified him using dental records from Florida.

(hc-lja)

AP-ES-06-13-05 1354EDT

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