MARION COUNTY, Fla. – A boy who was arrested at 12 years old in connection to the 2023 shooting deaths of three teens in Marion County has pleaded guilty, court records show.
Fourteen-year-old Christopher Atkins and two others — Tahj Brewton, now 18, and Robert Robinson, now 19 — were arrested in April 2023 and charged as adults in the shooting deaths of 16-year-old Layla Silvernail, 16-year-old Camille Quarles and 17-year-old Michael Hodo Jr. in the Ocklawaha area, according to the Marion County Sheriff’s Office.
That May, a grand jury indicted Robinson and Brewton on three counts of first-degree murder charges and Atkins on one count of first-degree murder. All three were charged with robbery with a firearm and tampering with physical evidence…