Reply #87: Thanks, that will teach me to believe/react to stuff without verifying first [View All]

[bunkerbuster1]

I'd heard otherwise, here at DU. But I see from news accounts like, say, this...

http://news.bostonherald.com/news/national/southwest/view/2008_11_10_Top_cop_in_Arizona_slay_is_former_Ashland_chief/srvc=home&position=4

“This is unprecedented,” said Roy Melnick, who has been chief of police in St. Johns, Ariz., since April and before that spent six years as Ashland’s top cop. “It’s shocking to the residents.”

The boy is due in court today to face two counts of premeditated murder in the Wednesday shooting death of his 29-year-old dad and one of his dad’s co-workers. A judge will decide whether to try the child as an adult.

Melnick, in a phone interview with the Herald today, said trying the child as an adult is an option, but added: “I don’t think it’s an option we would explore.”