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Police say 11-year-old killed dad's pregnant girlfriend
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By staff and wire reports
Saturday, February 21, 2009
An 11-old Lawrence County boy allegedly shot his father's pregnant girlfirend in the head yesterday, then went to school as if nothing happened, state police said today.
State police early this morning arrested Jordan Anthony Brown, 11, of New Beaver and charged him as an adult with criminal homicide and criminal homicide of an unborn child. He is in the Lawrence County Jail.
At a news conference this afternoon, Lawrence County District Attorney John Bongivengo said that Jordan used a 20-gauge youth shotgun to shoot Kenzie Marie Houk while she lay in bed.
He then met the school bus with Houk's 7-year-old daughter, and they went to school. It is not clear if the girl knew what happened to her mother.
Left with the body was Houk's 4-year-old daughter. She went to tree trimmers who were working near the home shortly before 10 a.m. and said that she thought her mother was dead.
Lawrence County Coroner Russell Noga said that Houk had been carrying a baby boy, who was near to term. The baby died.
Jordan is the son of Christopher Brown, who was living with Houk at a farmhouse on the 1100 block of Wampum New Galilee Road in New Beaver. He was in the fifth grade in the Mohawk School District.
Bongiveno said Jordan first told police about a black van that was near the home about the time that he went to school, but police arrested him after his story kept changing.
The home, located at the end of a half-mile long driveway along a road scattered with abandoned and burned-out trailers, was cordoned off with yellow police tape and a Pennsylvania State Police vehicle was parked out front early Saturday afternoon. Next to the house was farm equipment and a barn filled with hay.
WPXI-TV identified the dead woman's father as Jack Houk. There was no immediate response Saturday to a call by The Associated Press seeking comment from a Jack Houk of New Castle, a city near Wampum.
Cameron Tucker, a neighbor who lived across the street from Kenzie Houk, said Houk was engaged and had been renting the home for no more than a year. Tucker said he had never met Houk's fiance, but that both of them had children.
Tucker's wife sometimes drove Houk's daughter to the bus stop because she went to preschool with the Tuckers' 5-year-old.
"She was very protective of her kids," he said of Houk, adding that she seemed very excited about her pregnancy.
Police say 11-year-old killed dad's pregnant girlfriend
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By staff and wire reports
Saturday, February 21, 2009
An 11-old Lawrence County boy allegedly shot his father's pregnant girlfirend in the head yesterday, then went to school as if nothing happened, state police said today.
State police early this morning arrested Jordan Anthony Brown, 11, of New Beaver and charged him as an adult with criminal homicide and criminal homicide of an unborn child. He is in the Lawrence County Jail.
At a news conference this afternoon, Lawrence County District Attorney John Bongivengo said that Jordan used a 20-gauge youth shotgun to shoot Kenzie Marie Houk while she lay in bed.
He then met the school bus with Houk's 7-year-old daughter, and they went to school. It is not clear if the girl knew what happened to her mother.
Left with the body was Houk's 4-year-old daughter. She went to tree trimmers who were working near the home shortly before 10 a.m. and said that she thought her mother was dead.
Lawrence County Coroner Russell Noga said that Houk had been carrying a baby boy, who was near to term. The baby died.
Jordan is the son of Christopher Brown, who was living with Houk at a farmhouse on the 1100 block of Wampum New Galilee Road in New Beaver. He was in the fifth grade in the Mohawk School District.
Bongiveno said Jordan first told police about a black van that was near the home about the time that he went to school, but police arrested him after his story kept changing.
The home, located at the end of a half-mile long driveway along a road scattered with abandoned and burned-out trailers, was cordoned off with yellow police tape and a Pennsylvania State Police vehicle was parked out front early Saturday afternoon. Next to the house was farm equipment and a barn filled with hay.
WPXI-TV identified the dead woman's father as Jack Houk. There was no immediate response Saturday to a call by The Associated Press seeking comment from a Jack Houk of New Castle, a city near Wampum.
Cameron Tucker, a neighbor who lived across the street from Kenzie Houk, said Houk was engaged and had been renting the home for no more than a year. Tucker said he had never met Houk's fiance, but that both of them had children.
Tucker's wife sometimes drove Houk's daughter to the bus stop because she went to preschool with the Tuckers' 5-year-old.
"She was very protective of her kids," he said of Houk, adding that she seemed very excited about her pregnancy.