Updated 3-1 to reflect the filing of charges in baby death.
A competency hearing has been ordered for a 24 year-old Racine man who's been charged with reckless homicide in the death of a baby. Jeremy Marquez appeared in court Thursday. According to the criminal complaint, the three month-old child's mother had left the baby in Marquez' care last Friday while she went shopping with her father for a car. Marquez told investigators that he noticed that the baby wasn't breathing after he tried to feed the child. According to the first officers on the scene, Marquez appeared to be confused and emotional. There was a heavy odor of marijuana in the air. The baby was taken to Children's Hospital for treatment of severe head trauma. The baby died the following Sunday. In addition to the homicide charge, Marquez is facing charges of marijuana possession and bailing jumping. He'd been arrested earlier for a drug offense.
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A 68 year-old Mt. Pleasant man is facing charges for allegedly having sexual contact with a 14 year-old boy. A parent who accidentally came across an exchange of sexually explicit Facebook messages blew the whistle. The defendant, Roy Wright, lived in the same apartment complex as the victim's family. According to the criminal complaint, the boy often times went to Wright's apartment to ostensibly work on computers.
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A student at LakeView Technology Academy in Pleasant Prairie has been arrested after she reportedly distributed a photo of someone holding a gun, then attached a comment saying that something bad might happen at the school. The 18-year-old student was arrested Wednesday.
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The geographic and economic growth that's been documented in the greater Kenosha area is not translating into gains in enrollment in the Kenosha Unified School District. In fact, small enrollment declines are expected to persist over the next several years. The numbers were laid out Tuesday night for the Kenosha School Board by Chief Information Officer Kip Keckler. Keckler says a declining birth rate is to blame.
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