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Lee teen stabs brother

• A 14-year-old boy sustains minor injuries after being attacked by his brother, deputies say.

Joshua Brown

LEESBURG — A Lee County teen is charged with aggravated assault after investigators say he stabbed and slashed his younger brother after he refused to give up his pajama pants.

Searcy Donald McClure, 17, of Leesburg was jailed Thursday after a short foot chase with Lee County sheriff’s deputies near his Thundering Pines home.

According to the incident report, McClure’s 14-year-old brother told deputies that McClure wanted to wear the pajama pants he had on and attacked him when he refused.

After kicking his older brother to get him off of him, the younger brother was struck in the groin area with a bronze seashell that McClure threw at him before saying, “I’m not going back to jail,” according to the report.

The younger brother told police he never saw a knife, but the boys’ mother, Tina McClure, told deputies that she saw Searcy McClure with what looked to be a butter knife.

Investigators took pictures of a puncture mark to the younger brother’s inner thigh and a cut on his left thumb. Neither injury appeared to be serious, according to the report.

Searcy McClure’s juvenile court records are kept private under Georgia law, Lee County records officials said.

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