Homicide suspect again in jail after choose revokes bond
The household of Robert Murphy is relieved now that the person accused of murdering him is again in jail.
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“We may have gone out to eat and seen this man throughout the desk from us,” stated Ryan Murphy, the son of the sufferer. “That’s wild to consider.”
Again on July 28, 64-year-old Robert Murphy was crushed to demise. That very same day, police arrested 40-year-old William Bordsen for first-degree homicide, however a choose gave him a $400,000 bond and he was in a position to make it. He walked out in three days.
“It makes me sick,” Ryan Murphy stated. “That’s coming from an individual that’s clearly unfit for society.”
However on Friday, one other choose reversed that call based mostly on new proof.
Murphy and Bordsen had been roommates and lived in a house off Coronado Drive in east Charlotte. The preliminary story given to prosecutors was that Murphy was drunk and began a combat and that Bordsen needed to defend himself. In courtroom, prosecutors stated that was not true, that toxicology experiences show that Murphy was not drunk. Moreover, cellphone video allegedly taken by Bordsen present him taunting the sufferer after he died or whereas he was dying.
“To the place he’s making noises on the bottom and this man pulls out his cellphone, takes video of my father. It’s the sickest factor I ever heard in my life,” Ryan Murphy stated.
The household is grateful that prosecutors pushed the courtroom to revoke the bond. They consider all of the scrutiny dropped at the legal justice system by the Iryna Zarutska case could have helped.
“I feel that being dropped at gentle, some scrutiny being positioned on Charlotte, undoubtedly pressured the system into making the suitable resolution this time,” stated Ryan Murphy. “We’re doing rather a lot higher now that he’s locked up. I don’t suppose you notice how a lot one thing is affecting you till a change is made.”
Though the Murphy household believes {that a} flawed has been righted, justice for them is a conviction that may preserve Bordsen locked up and by no means let loose.
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