The other teen charged is now 13-year-old Justin Curry. JSO said Curry was 12 years old at the time of the incident.<\/p>\n
All three teens are charged<\/a> with one count of second-degree murder and are being tried as adults.<\/p>\n Teens charged with murder in man’s beating death 16-year-old Robert Pope, 19-year-old Marcavion Lacey, and 13-year-old Justin Curry. <\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n Both Pope and Lacey pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder and to a robbery charge. It\u2019s unclear if that charge is affiliated with this incident.<\/p>\n Only Pope\u2019s family members were present in the courtroom today.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n JSO said Borkum was experiencing homelessness. Homeless advocate John Wyche told us the safest place for people living on the streets is often a well-lit area.<\/p>\n \u201cIn an area it\u2019s not a high crime area, but the lighting is what I think is really important to be in an area that\u2019s well lit,\u201d Wyche.<\/p>\n The judge said Curry is scheduled to appear in court Monday.<\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 On Thursday, 17-year-old Robert Pope and 19-year-old Marcavion Lacey, accused of beating a man to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117,17417,634,41172,35013,35016],"class_list":{"0":"post-71814","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-jacksonville","9":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","10":"tag-jacksonville-news","11":"tag-lacey","12":"tag-local","13":"tag-markha","14":"tag-robert_pope","15":"tag-roger_borkum"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"16-year-old](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/https:\/\/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com\/cmg\/JGCSQDSH65H7BPGYVPFF57RTZ4.jpg\")
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