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Five teens facing murder charges for deadly rock-throwing incident on I-75

Posted at 3:11 PM, Oct 23, 2017
and last updated 2017-10-23 15:13:07-04

Five teens are facing second degree murder charges after a man was killed when rocks were thrown onto I-75 from an overpass last Wednesday evening

A 32-year-old man, Kenneth White, was killed when one of the rocks went through the windshield of the vehicle he was riding in as a passenger.  Authorities had said the case could be charged as a murder. 

Other charges include six counts of felony malicious destruction of property and two counts misdemeanor malicious destruction of property 

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Four other vehicles were also hit by the rocks that were thrown from the Dodge Road overpass at about 8:30 p.m.

As of Friday, five teens, all boys were being held and questioned. It is not clear how many will be charged and what the charges will be.  

The teens are expected appear in court in front of a judge.