NYC Man Pleads Not Guilty To Killing At Harvard Dorm

2009_05_harshoot.jpg A Brooklyn resident pleaded not guilty to shooting a man in the basement of a Harvard dorm on Monday. Jabrai Jordan Copny, who is the son of a retired NYPD officer, is being held without bail for the murder of Justin Cosby. According to Boston authorities, Cosby was selling drugs to Harvard students and was at the Kirkland House dorm with marijuana and money; the Boston Globe reports, "Three men traveled to Cambridge from New York City with the intention of robbing Cosby." Middlesex County DA Gerald Leone said, "It was that encounter between the four men that went bad. The common denominator that led to the intent to rip-off Justin Cosby of both money and drugs was that Justin and Jordan were known to each other through Harvard students." Copny surrendered last night while the two other suspects are at large. Copney's mother told the Daily News, "My son is not a murderer. He was raised very well and is very respectful. My son wasn't into drugs, my son wasn't into being a thug...The truth will come out."

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They went to Harvard to rob a drug dealer?

From Brooklyn?

Rich brats who pay $500 for a quarter pound of kind bud = long distance jack.

Pretty much the only way guys like this will ever be able to say "I went to college", much less "I went to Harvard".

He went to Cambridge to rob the drug dealer.If he hadn't killed him, it probably would have been a good days pay.

"Copney's mother told the Daily News, 'My son is not a murderer. He was raised very well...'"

Now that's just straight up silliness.

Denial is a river that leads right to a maximum security penitentiary.

"Copney's mother told the Daily News, "My son is not a murderer. He was raised very well and is very respectful. My son wasn't into drugs, my son wasn't into being a thug..."

Is this the same explanation that Al Capone's mother gave to the DA prior to him going away?

Give it up mom! The kid's a total piece of shit. Now go out there and spawn another couple of dozen just like him.

I tell you slavery was the worse thing that was brought on the western civilization.

Sounds more like the behavior of Yale men.

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