Latest update May 30th, 2019 12:49 PM
11 YEAR OLD SHOOTS AND KILLS DAD'S PREGNANT GIRLFRIEND
An 11 year old boy was arrested and is currently in prision for killing his father’s pregnant girlfriend.
According to NEWSONE: An 11 year old boy covered his shotgun with a blue blanket to keep it hidden when he left his room. He then went downstairs and shot his father’s pregnant girlfriend in the head on Monday. The District Attorney’s Office is saying this crime was premediated. When the police found the blanket in the farmhouse where the boy, Jordan Brown, lived with his father, his father’s girl friend and her two daughters. The father’s girlfriend, Kenzie Marie Houk, was killed Friday morning while Brown’s father was at work and the two girls were in the home.
“The operating theory is that he covered the gun with the blanket to hide it when he came downstairs” from his bedroom to shoot Houk, who was in a first-floor bedroom, Bongivengo said. “It wasn t used to muffle (the shot) or anything, the blanket wasn’t thick enough for that.”
Brown got the youth-sized shotgun as a Christmas present, and used it to win a turkey shoot on Valentine’s Day.
After Brown shot Houk, he ran to get on the school bus with the one the girls, who saw him tossing something from his pocket onto the ground. The police later found a 20-guage shotfun shell at that spot. The girl later told authorities that she saw him with what she believed to be a shotgun and heard a loud bang. Brown, the 11 year old boy, is charged as an adult with criminal homicide. However, in Pennsylvania, there is no criminal homicide charge in juvenile court.“Because the juvenile system only has jurisdiction until he’s 21, the last thing I want is a 21-year-old who’s going to be out on the streets and willing to kill you,” Bongivengo said. The Houk family told the police that boy had threathened her and her 7 yearold daughter weeks before the shooting and told The Associtate Press the boy may have been jealous of Houk and her children. If this person were 18, we’d be looking at pursuing the death penalty,” Bongivengo said. Brown defense attorney Bennis Elisco has said he plans to ask the judge to move the case to juvenile court and to have the boy released on bail to his father. Brown is being held at the Lawrence County Jail, where jail officials said they don’t have adequate accommod ations for someone that young. He is being kept separate from the jail’s approximately 300 adult inmates.
Elisco didn’t return calls for comment Monday. He has said the boy hasn’t confessed to the shooting and he doubts the physical evidence will support police’s claim that the boy killed Houk with one shot to the back of her head.
