11-Year-Old Suspect Pleads Not Guilty In Pregnant SlayingJordan Brown Charged As Adult After Shooting Of WomanPOSTED: 10:10 am EDT May 7,
2009 WAMPUM, Pa. -- An 11-year-old Lawrence County boy has pleaded not guilty to adult charges that he fatally shot his father's pregnant fiancée at their home Feb. 20.Wednesday's formal arraignment for Jordan Brown was the first step in moving the case through Lawrence County Common Pleas Court. But Brown's defense attorneys say they still plan to ask a judge to move the case to juvenile court, where a judge would have jurisdiction over the case only until Brown is 21.State police allege that Brown loaded his youth shotgun before school, then walked into Kenzie Houk's bedroom in her Wampum farmhome and shot the 26-year-old woman in the back of the head while she slept, taking her life and that of her unborn son.A motive for the killing remains unclear. District Attorney John Bongivengo has suggested that Brown was jealous of sharing his father's attention with Houk and her two young daughters. Brown's defense attorney and some family members have said there's no evidence of that.If he's convicted as an adult, Brown could face up to life in prison.
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