Authorities in Milwaukee are investigating the death of an extremely malnourished preteen as a homicide.
Jacarie Robinson’s body was so badly decomposed when police officers responded to the home where he lived with his father late Tuesday that the medical examiner’s office struggled to positively identify him.
The 12-year-old victim had ten siblings living in separate homes. One of them, Jordan Robinson, said that the death left them in complete shock.
“I feel like I was stunned a little bit. You think everything’s been good this whole time. So, I would definitely say stunned, for me,” Jordan said.
“To my knowledge, my mom said everything was good. We always asked about him, of course. But to my knowledge, everything was good in our books.”
Authorities did not charge anyone in connection with the starvation death; the family, in the meanwhile, is mourning a special boy.
“His smile. Everything about him. He’d come light up a whole room. You’d feel loved by him. He was a good kid.”
