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2nd 12-yr-old won't be tried as adult in Danner murder case
Updated: Monday, 10 May 2010, 5:52 PM EDT
Published : Monday, 10 May 2010, 3:02 PM EDT
KOSCIUSKO COUNTY, Ind. (WANE) - Chase Williams, a 12-year-old boy who was charged with Aiding and Causing a Murder, will be tried as a juvenile and is instead charged with Assisting a Criminal, a Class C felony for his involvement in the Phillip Danner murder in April.
Kosciusko County Chief Deputy Prosecutor Daniel Hampton dropped the request Monday to try Chase Williams as an adult and and changed William's charge to Assisting a Criminal.
Williams was arrested along with Colt Lundy,15, and Paul Gingerich, 12, in April after Lundy's stepfather, Phillip Danner was found shot to death in his home Cromwell. Police said Danner was shot multiple times: once in the eye, once in the wrist and twice in the chest. Police testimony said the boys had planned for weeks kill Danner and go to Arizona to sell T-shirts to "drug people."
His initial hearing is now scheduled for May 12 at 1:45.
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