PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A 15-year-old girl has been ordered to stand trial as an adult in the death of a 14-year-old boy in south Philadelphia.
Azim Chaplin was stabbed in the chest Feb. 11 and died five days later.
A judge on Tuesday ordered the girl held for trial on a third-degree murder charge. The Associated Press isn’t naming her because of her age.
Defense attorney David Desiderio sought dismissal of the charges, alleging Chaplin was stabbed after he and his friends followed and taunted the defendant and her friend for more than five blocks, throwing ice and snowballs at them.
Desiderio said Azim was confronting the girls with a six-inch stick when he was stabbed.
Prosecutor Gwenn Cujdik said the girl turned a case of “teenagers being teenagers” into homicide by overreacting.
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