Girl, 13, faces trial as adult in stabbing death

Wednesday, July 16, 2003

PENSACOLA, Florida (AP) -- A 13-year-old girl accused of cutting the throat of a childhood friend in a fight over fireworks will be tried as an adult on second-degree murder charges, a grand jury decided Tuesday.

Prosecutors had sought a first-degree indictment against Christine Rogers in the July 5 death of 15-year-old Ashley Harvey.

Police said the girls had argued earlier in the day, then began tossing lit fireworks at each other. Later, the dispute resumed, and Rogers chased Harvey with a butcher knife, cutting her throat in front of the duplex where Harvey lived with her mother.

Rogers would have faced a mandatory life sentence if convicted of first-degree murder.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/South/07/16/fireworks.killing.ap/index.html

 

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