14-year-old Michigan girl and 17-year-old boyfriend charged as adults in plot to kill mother

EASTPOINTE, Mich. (AP) — A 14-year-old Detroit-area girl and her 17-year-old boyfriend have been charged as adults in a plot to kill the girl’s mother.

The 17-year-old is accused of breaking into the family’s Eastpointe home through an unlocked door in July and trying to strangle her mother while she slept, the Macomb County Prosecutor’s Office said in a news release Thursday.

The boy fled after being confronted by other family members in the home.

Eastpointe police determined the two teenagers planned the attack, prosecutors said.

“The minor daughter met another minor on a social media app,” Eastpointe Police Chief Corey Haines told WJBK-TV. “They decided together that they were going to kill mom.”

Police said the girl’s mother took her phone because of some problems the girl was having at home. The mother did not know the boyfriend.

The girl was arraigned Aug. 14 on solicitation of murder and conspiracy to commit first-degree premeditated murder. Her bond was set at $1 million. The 17-year-old was arraigned Aug. 12 on conspiracy to commit first-degree premeditated murder and assault with intent to murder. His bail was set at $2.5 million.

Both were being held at the county Juvenile Justice Center. They face probable cause hearings Tuesday in Eastpointe District Court.

Their names have not been released.

“This level of criminal activity is unacceptable and we intend to treat it with the severity it deserves,” District Attorney Peter J. Lucido said in a news release. “That’s why we’re looking to charge these juveniles as adults — because when you commit adult crimes, you face adult consequences.”

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