WITNESS LINKS SUSPECT TO SLAYING OF BLACK YOUTH.(Local)

Byline: Associated Press

A jailed robber and drug user who has testified in other highly publicized crimes told jurors Thursday that the alleged gunman in the Bensonhurst racial attack confessed to slaying a black teenager.

The 32-year-old witness, Charles Brown, said that less than a day after he was put in protective custody with Joseph Fama, the 19-year-old accused killer told him about the killing.

"I shot him, I shot him," Brown quoted Fama as saying. "I can't bring the guy back."

According to Brown, the confession took place in a cell at the Brooklyn House of Detention at about 1:30 p.m. March 23.

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