SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah judge has ruled that a teenager accused of shooting a 14-year-old girl will be tried in adult court.
Juvenile Court judge Angela Fonnesbeck said Wednesday that the teenage boy’s alleged actions were premeditated, saying “he planned, and he acted.”
He is one of two teenage boys accused of plotting to kill Deserae Turner. The second teenager will also be tried in adult court.
Turner nearly died after being shot in the head and left in a ditch in the small northern Utah town of Smithfield in February.
Authorities have said the two 16-year-old boys concocted the plan while playing video games and discussing their desire to “get rid” of Turner, who was texting one of them.
The Associated Press is not naming the boys because they are juveniles.
