| Florida woman best known as the "Hiccup Girl" has a murder trial in May. The woman, Jennifer Mee was responsible for setting up a young man in a botched robbery that led to his murder. Mee, her boyfriend and another friend are facing life in the iron college if they're found guilty. |
The young woman who was famous sometime back in 2007 for uncontrollable hiccups (Tourette's syndrome) is facing trial for murder. Jennifer Mee, Laron Raiford and her then boyfriend Lamont Newton were involved in a robbery/murder of Shannon Griffin, a young man who met Mee on Facebook.
| Laron Raiford. |
Shannon Griffin was a survivor of the devastating Hurricane Katrina of 2005. Griffin moved with his mother to St. Petersburg from Mississippi. He was working and attending a local college. He apparently heard of the young woman through friends and the social networks. Mee arranged Griffin to meet her at a dope spot and the two men Raiford and Newton were to rob him of his stuff. Griffin put up a fight and one of the men shot him and killed him.
Mee is going to face the judge in May. She may take a plea deal to get a reduced sentence. Right now, if she is convicted for her role in murder, Mee will spend the rest of her life in prison.
Mee was then a 15-year old girl who was making the media circuit for a rare condition that caused repetitive and painful hiccups. Her parents tried to get her all the remedies to stop them, but to no avail.
| Lamont Newton. |
Doctors found medication and therapy to help control the hiccups. For the most part, Mee was "cured" of her hiccups. But there lies the dark side of Jennifer Mee.
Mee was a rebellous teenager. She would often run away to live with her boyfriend Lamont Newton, a known dope boy.
She would post that "she was the Gangsta Boo of TBSP (Tampa Bay-St. Petersburg)".
Often on her social networking profiles, Mee would be seen showing mild raunchy of herself as well some pictures of her smoking the kush and drinking.
Laron Raiford and Newton lived in the neighborhood that Mee was to arrange this set up.
Newton wanted to get his girlfriend to lure her "date" to the house. They ended with this plan going wrong.
Mee initially tried to say that it's the fault of Raiford. She claimed that Griffin knew Raiford's previous girlfriend and the jealous boyfriend was going to beat the crap out of him.
| Shannon Griffin, the young man who was gunned down by Lamont Newton and Laron Raiford. |
But do you actually think she is not at fault for her role in Shannon Griffin's murder?
| Then a teenager, the world showed sympathy to a young girl who could never cease the constant hiccups. |
Hopefully, justice will be served and we here at Journal de la Reyna believe that Jennifer Mee, Lamont Newton and Laron Raiford deserve a fair trial. We believe if they're to be found guilty in this murder, they should spent the rest of their lives in the iron college.
Currently the three are currently incarcerated in the Pinellas County Jail in Clearwater, Florida.
We here at Journal de la Reyna send our condolences to the family of Shannon Griffin.
