Roach's mother, Jasmine Roach, said she gave birth to Veronica on Oct. 6, 2003, when she was 17 years old and Colbert, a close family friend, raised her since she was two months old.

LONG BRANCH – Jasmine Roach cried for answers. Who could have killed her 10-year-old daughter, Veronica, in a double homicide that also took the life of Veronica's foster mother?

Jasmine Roach told the Asbury Park Press that she gave birth to Veronica when she was 17 years old and turned to Colbert to raise the child. "I was young at the time," said Roach, who had already ...

Roach was the daughter of Charley Bracey and Jasmine Roach. She attended Long Branch Public School and loved to play, dance and most of all be around her friends and family, according to her obituary.

Dixon was handcuffed and put in a holding cell without knowing why — until the next day, a complaint says. After a night in the cell, he learned he was wanted for the murder of Jasmine Roach ...