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Boy charged after death of pregnant woman
By Ramit Plushnick-Masti
Wampum, Pennsylvania - An 11-year-old boy has been charged in the shotgun death of his father's pregnant girlfriend, who was found slain in a bedroom of her western Pennsylvania farmhouse, authorities said on Saturday.
Jordan Brown was charged as an adult in the shooting death of Kenzie Marie Houk, who was eight months pregnant, Lawrence County District Attorney John Bongivengo said at a news conference.
Brown, the son of Houk's live-in boyfriend, was charged with criminal homicide and criminal homicide of an unborn child, Bongivengo said.
Police said Houk's four-year-old daughter found her mother's body on Friday morning in a bedroom of their home in a wooded area in the community of Wampum. Houk's other daughter, who is seven years old, later told police that Brown killed her mother, Bongivengo said.
Police said the boy had been arraigned in district court and placed in the county jail.
The home was cordoned off with yellow police tape and a Pennsylvania State Police vehicle was parked out front early on Saturday afternoon. Next to the house was farm equipment and a barn filled with hay.
A neighbour, Cameron Tucker, said Houk was engaged and had been renting the house for no more than a year. Tucker said he had never met Houk's fiance, but that both of them had children.
"She was very protective of her kids," he said, adding that she seemed very excited about her pregnancy.
A preliminary hearing is set for Thursday.
The rural community is about 56km north-west of Pittsburgh. - Sapa-AP
Boy charged after death of pregnant woman
By Ramit Plushnick-Masti
Wampum, Pennsylvania - An 11-year-old boy has been charged in the shotgun death of his father's pregnant girlfriend, who was found slain in a bedroom of her western Pennsylvania farmhouse, authorities said on Saturday.
Jordan Brown was charged as an adult in the shooting death of Kenzie Marie Houk, who was eight months pregnant, Lawrence County District Attorney John Bongivengo said at a news conference.
Brown, the son of Houk's live-in boyfriend, was charged with criminal homicide and criminal homicide of an unborn child, Bongivengo said.
Police said Houk's four-year-old daughter found her mother's body on Friday morning in a bedroom of their home in a wooded area in the community of Wampum. Houk's other daughter, who is seven years old, later told police that Brown killed her mother, Bongivengo said.
Police said the boy had been arraigned in district court and placed in the county jail.
The home was cordoned off with yellow police tape and a Pennsylvania State Police vehicle was parked out front early on Saturday afternoon. Next to the house was farm equipment and a barn filled with hay.
A neighbour, Cameron Tucker, said Houk was engaged and had been renting the house for no more than a year. Tucker said he had never met Houk's fiance, but that both of them had children.
"She was very protective of her kids," he said, adding that she seemed very excited about her pregnancy.
A preliminary hearing is set for Thursday.
The rural community is about 56km north-west of Pittsburgh. - Sapa-AP