Suspected Roommate Killer Arraigned

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The Benton Harbor man who admitted to authorities over the weekend that he stabbed and killed his roommate in an argument over money is now charged with that murder. Berrien County Prosecutor Mike Sepic says 60-year-old Jerry Lee Osler was arraigned Monday on a 1st degree murder charge along with concealing the death of an individual. Bond has been set at a quarter-million dollars and Osler is due back in court for a pre-exam conference on March 13. Benton Harbor Public Safety officers found 57-year-old Sylvester Booth in the basement of the home in the 100 block of Lake Street with a single stab wound to the chest just after 1 a.m. Saturday. Osler told police he had stabbed Booth four or five days earlier.