No Bail For Hiccup Girl and Murder Pair
Bail has been denied for Jennifer Mee and two other men, who are facing murder charges in connection with a robbery that left a 22-year-old man dead. The trio are being held in Pinellas County Jail at St. Petersburg, Florida.
Mee, 19, first made national, and international, news in January 2007 with a case of non-stop hiccups.
According to St. Petersburg police, Mee exchanged online messages and phone calls with Shannon Griffin in the week leading up to the homicide.
Investigators said Mee asked Griffin to come to a home in the 500 block of 7th Street North on Saturday. Mee met him in front of the house, and then walked with him, where he was confronted by Laron Raiford, 20, and Lamont Newton, 22, police said.
Raiford and Newton attacked Griffin, robbing him then shooting him numerous times, police said.
Mee, along with Raiford and Newton are now in the Pinellas County Jail facing felony first-degree murder charges.
Mee first made news after a fight with the hiccups that lasted for 6 weeks. During that time she was asked to leave school because she was considered a distraction to other students.
Doctors got the hiccups to stop.
Then early this year, Mee was reported as a runaway. She was found later at the home of a relative.
Mee has no prior criminal record, but could face life in prison if found guilty of luring Griffin into the home so he could be robbed.
