KENTWOOD (WOOD) — A former Kentwood Public Schools groundskeeper has been ordered to stand trial in the rape case involving a 16-year-old East Kentwood High School student who was murdered in January.
Mujey Dumbuya was supposed to appear at Quinn James' preliminary hearing Wednesday, but her body was found in Kalamazoo shortly after James learned she was going to testify. She had been strangled. James hasn't been charged in connection to her death, but is considered a person of interest.
At the preliminary hearing, the prosecution presented the recorded police interview with James, jail phone calls he made to his mother and the testimony of the only other surviving witness in the rape case: Dumbuya's boyfriend.
Daquarius Bibbs, 17, was living with James and his aunt, who is James' girlfriend.
He testified James assaulted Dumbuya four times last summer. He said she cried during the first assault as he held her hand.
Bibbs said he didn’t tell James to stop because he was scared of James, adding James had choked him before.
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