Trial set for man accused of killing West Palm mom, daughter
By Hannah Winston
Palm Beach Post
WEST PALM BEACH - The man accused in the December 2017 killings of a 36-year-old woman and her 11-year-old daughter in West Palm Beach is scheduled to go to trial early next year, court records show.
Marlin Larice Joseph, 28, appeared in court Friday, where Circuit Judge Cheryl Caracuzzo denied his attorney’s motion to release him on bond. During the same hearing, the judge set his death-penalty trial in the fatal shootings of Kaladaa Crowell, and Kyra Inglett, for Feb. 10, 2020
Joseph’s case has bounced between criminal court and mental-health court since August 2018, several months after his arrest. In September, Circuit Judge Laura Johnson ruled was competent to stand trial after months of treatment and observation at a mental-health facility, according to court records.
This came after Joseph punched his attorney, Fredrick Susaneck, in the nose during a jail visit. In an emergency motion filed in August, Susaneck wrote the punch came “without warning and clearly in spite of the alleged finding of competency in this case.”
On Dec. 28, 2017, Joseph was arguing with Crowell, his mother’s girlfriend, about her daughter’s “bad attitude.” Joseph, who lived in the home on the 800 block of Third Street, just three blocks north of Clematis Street and west of the Palm Beach County Courthouse, fled the scene after shooting Crowell in the home and Kyra just outside it.
Earlier in the day, neighbors said they say the “spunky” and “artisitic” fifth-grade Northboro Elementary School student riding her purple bicycle outside the home.
Crowell became a “second mom” to her patients Jerome Golden Center for Behavioral Health in West Palm Beach, where she was a case worker.
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