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Luis Vega appears in court for murder of 15-year-old Destiny Sanchez

The man charged in the brutal death of a 15-year-old Bronx girl back in 2012 appeared in court Tuesday.  Luis Vega was charged earlier this month with second-degree murder, about a year and a half

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May 27, 2014, 6:15 PM

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