Father died over $1 cover for party, prosecutor says

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They got kicked out of a Sweet Sixteen birthday party and wanted their $1 cover charge back, but when the father of the Baltimore birthday girl refused, they fatally shot him, a prosecutor said.

The two teens, Jamal Charles and Dwayne Drake, murdered Bryan Jones, 42, in front of his family on April 14, 2006, Rita Wisthoff-Ito, an assistant state?s attorney, said Thursday in opening arguments in the youths? murder trial.

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