14-year-old charged as an adult in murder of Deerfield Beach teen

A 14-year-old boy has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of Rickey Ferguson Jr., a 16-year-old student and football player at Deerf...

January 28, 2023
1:04 AM

A 14-year-old boy has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of Rickey Ferguson Jr., a 16-year-old student and football player at Deerfield Beach High School.A grand jury indicted Keantae Vaughn, a ninth-grader at Andrews High School in Pompano Beach, as an adult on Wednesday. Vaughn was arrested Dec. 30 and has been moved from the juvenile detention facility into the Broward Sheriff's Office's Paul Rein Detention Facility.The South Florida Sun Sentinel is identifying Vaugh because he has been charged as an adult.

Angie DiMichele