Girl, 14, and 17-Year-Old Boyfriend Charged as Adults in Plot to Kill Her Mother

Published on August 25, 2024

EASTPOINTE, Mich.—A 14-year-old Detroit-area girl and her 17-year-old boyfriend have been charged as adults in a plot to kill the girl’s mother. The 17-year-old is accused of of entering the family’s Eastpointe home through an opened door in July and trying to strangle the mother while she slept, the Macomb County prosecutor’s office said Thursday in a news release. The boy ran after being confronted by other family members in the home. Eastpointe police determined that the two teens planned the attack, the prosecutor’s office said. “The minor daughter had met another minor on a social media app,” Eastpointe Police Chief Corey Haines told WJBK-TV. “They decided together that they were going to kill mom.”...

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