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Ishpeming suspect bound over for murder

MARQUETTE, MI--   An Ishpeming man accused of homicide has been bound over to Marquette County Circuit Court. 

Derek Blemke, 24, is charged with open murder in the stabbing death of Brandon LaFavre, 21, on June 24 in an apartment on Wright Street in Marquette. 

WLUC-TV says at Blemke’s preliminary hearing Tuesday it was revealed LaFavre had suffered 24 stab wounds.

Blemke will be arraigned in circuit court July 29.  

Nicole was born near Detroit but has lived in the U.P. most of her life. She graduated from Marquette Senior High School and attended Michigan State and Northern Michigan Universities, graduating from NMU in 1993 with a degree in English.
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