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Six charged with murder of Augusta teen-ager

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AUGUSTA - Police have charged six people from Georgia and South Carolina with the murder of an Augusta teen-ager last fall. <br> <br> The sixth suspect, 23-year-old Alexander Louis Hunsberger, turned himself in Friday in Edgefield County, S.C., police said. <br> <br> Hunsberger&#39;s older brother, 24-year-old Julio Angelo Hunsberger of Trenton, S.C., also is being held in Edgefield County jail. <br> <br> The other four suspects Steven Louis Barnes, 23; Charlene Ann Thatcher, 18; Richard Martes Cave, 19; and Antonio Dewayne Griffen, 18, all of Augusta are being held in the Richmond County jail. <br> <br> Police say 16-year-old Samuel James Sturrup Jr. was kidnapped in Augusta on Sept. 3 and brutally beaten with a metal pipe and other objects, then taken to a wooded area in Edgefield and shot six times. <br> <br> In November, a dog brought home a human skull punctured by a bullet, which eventually led police to Sturrup&#39;s remains, police said. <br> <br> Edgefield County Sheriff Adell Dobey called it one of the most cold-blooded murders in the county&#39;s recent history.
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