Article: TEENS, ONE 13, ACCUSED OF MURDER; OWNER OF BUILDING WAS SHOT WHEN HE INTERRUPTED A BREAK-IN WEDNESDAY NIGHT, COURT PAPERS SAY.(News)

Byline: Robert A. Baker Staff writer

A 16-year-old Syracuse boy set an unoccupied house on fire with a Molotov cocktail, recruited a 13-year-old boy to join him on a robbery, fatally shot a man while the younger boy watched and then stole a laptop computer from an occupied home, all within 24 hours, police said.

It was the laptop theft that brought the 16-year-old's crime spree to an end, the Syracuse police chief said Friday.

The boys have been charged with murder in the fatal shooting Wednesday night of Nathaniel Jamison, 49, at a home he owns at 334 W. Newell St.

Va Tell Baptista, 16, of 340 Primrose Ave., was charged with ...

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