WARREN, Mich. (AP) - A 15-year-old Detroit boy has been charged as an adult with second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of a 10-year-old relative in an apartment that police say was being used like a “flophouse” by a group of young people.
The teen was arraigned Tuesday in Warren district court. He was being held in a juvenile detention facility on a $500,000 bond pending an Aug. 11 probable cause hearing.
Orran Baugh of Detroit was shot once in the chest Wednesday afternoon in the Warren apartment, just north of Detroit. He later died at a hospital.
Police say eight youths — ages 13 to 17 — were interviewed by investigators as witnesses.
The Detroit Free Press reports that Warren Police Commissioner Bill Dwyer described their relationships to one another as cousins, and that they were using the apartment “like a flophouse.”
There was no adult supervision in the apartment at the time of the shooting, Dwyer said last week.
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