Lawyers withdraw motion to bar public from teen suspect’s trial

2013-10-25T17:00:35-05:00

By Mitch Mitchell Fort Worth Star-Telegram Originally published Oct. 22, 2013 FORT WORTH — The attorneys for a 14-year-old accused of killing his 5-year-old neighbor withdrew a request to bar the public from the trial during a hearing on Tuesday. The 14-year-old suspect, who is not being identified because he is a juvenile, confessed to killing Sida Osman by hitting him twice in the head with a bowling ball while the two boys were in the fenced back yard of a vacant house in the 4800 block of Lois Street. Osman’s body was found June 26, more than 18 hours after [...]