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A teenage male was being held Monday in a maximum security juvenile detention center pending charges in the weekend slaying of a Fremont man.
Wayne County sheriff's spokeswoman Kassidee Brown said the youth, who is a minor and therefore not identified, was arrested Sunday after deputies responded to a 911 call and found the body of Jerimiah Randall James, 32, inside his home.
Brown later said the cause of death was strangulation, per a state medical examiner's report.
The suspect was booked into the Utah Youth Center, in the neighboring Sevier County town of Richfield, on suspicion of manslaughter, possession and consumption of alcohol by a minor and possession of marijuana.
Brown said the altercation involved a grandfather, a son and a nephew. The family, which originally resided in the Salt Lake Valley, had lived in Fremont for less than a month.
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