Post by Melissa on Feb 1, 2011 21:17:38 GMT -5
articles.sfgate.com/2009-02-25/news/17189121_1_kenzie-marie-houk-jordan-brown-gun
Boy charged in killing moving to juvenile jail
Pittsburgh - — An 11-year-old Pennsylvania boy charged with killing his father's pregnant fiancee will be moved from a county jail to a juvenile facility under a court order issued Tuesday.
Jordan Brown will remain charged as an adult for now in the shooting death of 26-year-old Kenzie Marie Houk, but it is in his best interest to be housed in the Allencrest Juvenile Detention Center in Beaver, according to the order sought by his attorney.
"What we have learned is ... that under Pennsylvania law he can continue to be ... prosecuted as an adult and be housed in a secure juvenile detention center," defense attorney Dennis Elisco said.
Jordan is accused of shooting Houk in the head on Friday, killing her and her unborn baby boy. He is being held at the Lawrence County Jail, in a cell isolated from the adult inmates.
Elisco said the boy will be moved to the juvenile center this morning.
Authorities believe the killing was premeditated. They say Jordan came downstairs with two guns, but returned upstairs after Houk's 7-year-old daughter saw him; they believe he then hid the gun in a blanket and came back downstairs to Houk's bedroom and shot her in the back of the head.
Later, the 7-year-old girl told police she saw Jordan drop something on the ground from his pocket before they got on the bus. Police said they found a spent shotgun shell in the same spot.
Earlier Tuesday, Houk's mother said Jordan had been threatening Kenzie Houk for at least two months and often gave her a hard time, especially when his father wasn't around.
The boy and his father, Christopher Brown, lived with Houk and her two small daughters in a farmhouse in the rural western Pennsylvania town of Wampum.
"It's been at least two months that he's made the threats," Debbie Houk said, adding that Jordan "just bucked her a lot when his dad wasn't around."
"Chris was good about it. He tried. He told him, 'Don't you ever disrespect her,' " Debbie Houk added.
Debbie Houk said the boy was a hunter who knew a lot about guns and was a good shot. On Valentine's Day, he beat out many older and more experienced hunters at a turkey shoot.
"I'll never cook that turkey. It's the same gun that killed my daughter," she said. "So he knew what a gun did. He knew the dangers of a gun."
Boy charged in killing moving to juvenile jail
Pittsburgh - — An 11-year-old Pennsylvania boy charged with killing his father's pregnant fiancee will be moved from a county jail to a juvenile facility under a court order issued Tuesday.
Jordan Brown will remain charged as an adult for now in the shooting death of 26-year-old Kenzie Marie Houk, but it is in his best interest to be housed in the Allencrest Juvenile Detention Center in Beaver, according to the order sought by his attorney.
"What we have learned is ... that under Pennsylvania law he can continue to be ... prosecuted as an adult and be housed in a secure juvenile detention center," defense attorney Dennis Elisco said.
Jordan is accused of shooting Houk in the head on Friday, killing her and her unborn baby boy. He is being held at the Lawrence County Jail, in a cell isolated from the adult inmates.
Elisco said the boy will be moved to the juvenile center this morning.
Authorities believe the killing was premeditated. They say Jordan came downstairs with two guns, but returned upstairs after Houk's 7-year-old daughter saw him; they believe he then hid the gun in a blanket and came back downstairs to Houk's bedroom and shot her in the back of the head.
Later, the 7-year-old girl told police she saw Jordan drop something on the ground from his pocket before they got on the bus. Police said they found a spent shotgun shell in the same spot.
Earlier Tuesday, Houk's mother said Jordan had been threatening Kenzie Houk for at least two months and often gave her a hard time, especially when his father wasn't around.
The boy and his father, Christopher Brown, lived with Houk and her two small daughters in a farmhouse in the rural western Pennsylvania town of Wampum.
"It's been at least two months that he's made the threats," Debbie Houk said, adding that Jordan "just bucked her a lot when his dad wasn't around."
"Chris was good about it. He tried. He told him, 'Don't you ever disrespect her,' " Debbie Houk added.
Debbie Houk said the boy was a hunter who knew a lot about guns and was a good shot. On Valentine's Day, he beat out many older and more experienced hunters at a turkey shoot.
"I'll never cook that turkey. It's the same gun that killed my daughter," she said. "So he knew what a gun did. He knew the dangers of a gun."