CORDELL, Okla. (AP) - Attorneys for a 14-year-old Oklahoma boy charged with murder are fighting efforts to try him as an adult.
The boy is charged with first-degree murder, shooting with intent to kill and burglary in the July 20 home invasion and fatal shooting of 36-year-old Tammi Thomas and wounding of Thomas’ 14-year-old son.
Court documents say the boy wore a “ghillie suit,” which is a camouflage outfit typically worn by hunters, when he broke into the home. The documents say the boy had expressed a desire to kill the other 14-year-old and that bullets recovered from the victims match a gun owned by the suspect’s father.
The boy has pleaded not guilty and has said he was at home with a friend at the time of the shooting.
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