10:30 a.m. A 14-year-old Hutchinson boy will remain in custody for now as he faces two counts of first-degree murder in a suspicious house fire that killed his mother and 11-year-old sister.
Reno County District Attorney Keith Schroeder said Monday the teen has waived his right to detention hearing, so no proceedings are planned Monday.
Schroeder says he will file a motion later seeking to try the teen as an adult on the murder charges and a charge of the attempted murder of his father, who escaped the blaze without injury. He was also charged with aggravated arson
The fire that engulfed the two-story house started early Thursday. Schroeder says the youth was not at the scene when firefighters arrived but returned to the house hours later.
(AP) — A 14-year-old Hutchinson boy charged with two counts of first-degree murder in a suspicious house fire that killed his mother and 11-year-old sister is
Home burned in the Sept. 26, fatal fire
scheduled to appear in court Monday.
The hearing will be closed because the charges were filed in juvenile court. Reno County District Attorney Keith Schroeder has said he will seek to try the teen as an adult on the murder charges and a charge of the attempted murder of his father, who escaped the blaze without injury.
Authorities had initially said the boy also escaped the fire that engulfed the two-story house early Thursday. But Schroeder later said the youth was not at the scene when firefighters arrived but returned to the house hours later.
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