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Mother of homicide victim presses Chester officials on investigation, trauma-care access
Summary
At the Jan. 27 meeting, the mother of Darien Beacham asked why a trauma center is not nearer, whether alleged coconspirators have been questioned and why suspect information was not widely released; police and the commissioner said the case is being actively worked and that information release is controlled by investigators.
At the Jan. 27 Chester City Council meeting, Benia Reevely, mother of Darien Beacham (killed Jan. 15), publicly pressed city officials for information about the investigation and about local emergency care access.
Reevely asked what the city was doing given that the nearest trauma unit is more than 35 minutes away and whether an alleged coconspirator had been brought in for questioning. She also asked why suspect information and images were not broadly released when, she said, investigators had…
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