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Posted on: May 29, 2020

Charges filed in teen's stabbing death

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PLANTATION KEY, May 28. 2020 – An Islamorada person is charged with second-degree murder as an adult in the slaying off his brother, who was stabbed to death at an Upper Keys condominium.

Daniel Weisberger, 17, is accused of stabbing his brother Pascal, 14, to death May 7. He is also charged with attempted murder of his father, 43-year-old Ariel Poholek; aggravated battery on Poholek; and false imprisonment of Poholek.

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