Post by Melissa on Feb 1, 2011 19:24:22 GMT -5
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11-year-old boy accused of killing his father’s girlfriend, unborn child
An 11-year-old boy charged as an adult for criminal homicide, and homicide of unborn child
Kelsey McNally
An 11-year-old-boy is accused of killing his father’s girlfriend Wampum, Pa., just before getting on the bus for school Friday morning.
Wampum police told the Chicago Sun-Times that Jordan Brown had shot 26-year-old Kenzie Marie Houk in the back of the head while she lay in bed, with his own youth model 20-gauge shotgun. Brown later put the weapon back in his room before getting on the school bus.
Lawrence County District Attorney John Bongivengo told CNN that Brown was charged Saturday as an adult for the murder of Houk, who was eight-months pregnant, and will also face charges as an adult for the murder of an unborn child.
“Under Pennsylvania law, anyone over the age of 10 accused of murder or homicide is charged as an adult if convicted,” Bongivengo told CNN.
Houk’s family told the Associated Press that there had been problems in the past with the boy.
“He actually told my son that he wanted to kill her,” Houk’s brother-in-law, Jason Kraner, told the Chicago Sun-Times. “There was an issue with jealousy.”
According to the Arizona Daily Star, State Police found Houk’s body, located in the rented farmhouse, after her 4-year-old daughter told tree cutters nearby that she thought her mother was dead.
Bongivengo also told the Arizona Daily Star that the daughter didn’t actually witness the shooting, but she said she saw what she believed to be a gun in the boys hand and a loud bang.
Houk has two daughters, ages four and seven who lived in the farmhouse with their mother, Brown and his father.
“The boy’s father, Christopher Brown, is a mess and had no indication his son had a problem with Houk,” defense attorney, Dennis Elisco, told the Daily Star.
Elisco says he plans to ask Monday, if the boy can be released on bail and if the case can be moved to a juvenile court, according the Sun-Times.
Meanwhile, both Yahoo News and the Associated Press reported that a jail warden asked that the boy be moved from jail to a juvenile detention center on Sunday, “because the jail can’t accommodate the boy.”
Elisco said, according to Yahoo! News that he “didn’t believe the physical evidence would support police’s claim that the boy killed Houk, execution-style, with one shot to the back of her head.”
The boy is reportedly being held in a small cell by himself, and is not allowed any visitors.
11-year-old boy accused of killing his father’s girlfriend, unborn child
An 11-year-old boy charged as an adult for criminal homicide, and homicide of unborn child
Kelsey McNally
An 11-year-old-boy is accused of killing his father’s girlfriend Wampum, Pa., just before getting on the bus for school Friday morning.
Wampum police told the Chicago Sun-Times that Jordan Brown had shot 26-year-old Kenzie Marie Houk in the back of the head while she lay in bed, with his own youth model 20-gauge shotgun. Brown later put the weapon back in his room before getting on the school bus.
Lawrence County District Attorney John Bongivengo told CNN that Brown was charged Saturday as an adult for the murder of Houk, who was eight-months pregnant, and will also face charges as an adult for the murder of an unborn child.
“Under Pennsylvania law, anyone over the age of 10 accused of murder or homicide is charged as an adult if convicted,” Bongivengo told CNN.
Houk’s family told the Associated Press that there had been problems in the past with the boy.
“He actually told my son that he wanted to kill her,” Houk’s brother-in-law, Jason Kraner, told the Chicago Sun-Times. “There was an issue with jealousy.”
According to the Arizona Daily Star, State Police found Houk’s body, located in the rented farmhouse, after her 4-year-old daughter told tree cutters nearby that she thought her mother was dead.
Bongivengo also told the Arizona Daily Star that the daughter didn’t actually witness the shooting, but she said she saw what she believed to be a gun in the boys hand and a loud bang.
Houk has two daughters, ages four and seven who lived in the farmhouse with their mother, Brown and his father.
“The boy’s father, Christopher Brown, is a mess and had no indication his son had a problem with Houk,” defense attorney, Dennis Elisco, told the Daily Star.
Elisco says he plans to ask Monday, if the boy can be released on bail and if the case can be moved to a juvenile court, according the Sun-Times.
Meanwhile, both Yahoo News and the Associated Press reported that a jail warden asked that the boy be moved from jail to a juvenile detention center on Sunday, “because the jail can’t accommodate the boy.”
Elisco said, according to Yahoo! News that he “didn’t believe the physical evidence would support police’s claim that the boy killed Houk, execution-style, with one shot to the back of her head.”
The boy is reportedly being held in a small cell by himself, and is not allowed any visitors.