11-Year Old Murder Suspect Enters Not Guilty Plea

May 7, 2009

NEW CASTLE, Lawrence County-- The 11-year old Lawrence County boy charged as an adult in the murder of his father's fiancee and her unborn child says he's not guilty.

Fifth-grader Jordan Brown entered that plea in a formal arraignment hearing in New Castle on Tuesday. The boy faces two counts of homicide following the death of 26-year old pregnant Kenzie Marie on February 20. Police accuse the boy of using his 20-gauge youth hunting shotgun to shoot her in the back of the head while she was still in bed at her Wampum farmhouse.

Authorities brought Brown into the courtroom on Tuesday in handcuffs and shackles. After the hearing he returned to a juvenile detention center in Erie where he remains without bond.

Brown's defense attorneys say they still plan to ask a judge to move the case to juvenile court.

If he is convicted as an adult, he will spend his life in prison.