Teen pleads guilty in girlfriend's murder

[redqueen]

ST. PAUL, Minn. - A Maplewood man accused of violently stabbing his teenaged girlfriend to death has waived his right to an adult certification hearing, choosing instead to plead guilty to second degree murder.

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Police responded to a Maplewood park just before 4:40 a.m. on February 23, 2013, after a call from Mitchell's mother. She told them about a girl found beaten and unresponsive on a nearby trail. After they arrived, Mitchell himself led investigators to a spot in Hillside Park in Maplewood where Hurd was lying approximately 15 feet from the path.

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Mitchell told police that he later went looking for her, returning a short time later in hysterics with blood on his hands, yelling for his mother to call 911.

But investigators soon learned that the defendant was also seen at a party the night before playing with a knife. A witness told police that Hurd had planned on ending the relationship between herself and the defendant and traveling to Texas alone. The witness said that Mitchell was "clingy" in his relationship with Hurd, and had threatened to commit suicide when she previously attempted to break up with him.

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http://www.kare11.com/news/article/1025322/391/Teen-pleads-guilty-in-girlfriends-murder

[chillfactor]

1. too bad that Mitchell didn't kill himself...

instead of an innocent victim.....

[11 Bravo]

2. On average, there are 40 murders every day in the United States.

I would submit that each of them is tragic.

[boston bean]

3. Is this the new progressive way

Of minimizing violence against women?

I submit all are tragic as well. But it is also important to recognize the types of crimes and reasons for them. And to discuss it. And to determine ways to stop it. When people discuss it I don't think that means people don't care about other victims of murder and types of murder.

[galileoreloaded]

4. yeah but thats because you are a man (i assume from the 11B designation)

and there is a very small but vocal minority here at DU that needs to promote an agenda of their self appointed protected class in spite of the statistics that show huge disparities of who the bulk of violent crime victims actually are.

its a new kind of victimization....of victims, merely by not having the sufficient chromosomal make up to warrant concern. very transparent.

[redqueen]

5. Forgive me for thinking that the fact that three of those murders are of women at the hands of their

male partners or ex partners is somehow significant.
I agree that every murder is tragic.
I hope you don't mind if I post about some of them.

[Pab Sungenis]

6. Forgive me for thinking

that every murder is a tragedy.

[11 Bravo]

8. I don't mind at all. I find it horrendous that 7.5% of the daily murders in this country ...

are women who are killed by male partners or ex-partners.
Forgive me for thinking that the other 92.5%, mostly young men, many of them African-American, are also significant.
Because that's all I fucking said.

[opiate69]

9. FYI, 11B...

you seem to have irked the keepers of the truth...

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I don't mind at all. I find it horrendous that 7.5% of the daily murders in this country ...
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Wow.

Rude, disruptive and way over the top. No idea what's wrong with posting this story or where this hostility is coming from.

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[niyad]

10. you are, of course, perfectly free to post about those other murders, you know. seems to me

that would be productive, if you feel they are not being given sufficient attention.

the OP is also free to post about whatever murders, or other subjects, interest the OP.

[nomorenomore08]

7. I don't understand this shit. Sure I've been angry, been hurt, but *killing somebody* over it???

I can only imagine the psychological processes, the rationalizations, that lead to something like this.

[niyad]

11. generally because they see the other person as property, possession, to which they have sole

right, is what it seems to come down to.