DETROIT – Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy has charged a 15-year-old boy from Detroit in connection with the fatal shooting of a 14-year-old boy and the non-fatal shooting of a 32-year-old woman, also of Detroit.
The 32-year-old woman is the mother of the 14-year-old, and officials say he is not being charged as an adult defendant.
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He has been adult designated, meaning that upon conviction, an adult designation allows the judge to sentence the respondent as a juvenile or as an adult or to fashion a blended juvenile sentence with the option of imposing an adult sentence if the juvenile is not rehabilitated.
On Nov. 7, 2024, around 6 p.m., Detroit police officers were dispatched to the area of Seward and Second avenues for a reported shooting.
Upon their arrival, officers observed the 14-year-old victim on the ground, suffering from multiple gunshot wounds.
Medics arrived on the scene and transported the 14-year-old boy to a Metro Detroit hospital.
The 32-year-old mother was privately transported to a Metro Detroit hospital for treatment. The 14-year-old succumbed to his injuries and was pronounced deceased on Nov. 11, 2024.
It is alleged that a verbal altercation between the 15-year-old shooter and the 14-year-old victim escalated, and the 15-year-old produced and fired a handgun multiple times, striking the 14-yer-old in the head, left arm, right hand, and left thigh, and striking the 32-year-old mother in the right arm.
The 15-year-old has been charged with second-degree murder and felony firearm.
The preliminary hearing was held Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. in the Lincoln Hall of Justice.
