A 15-year-old pleaded responsible Monday to first-degree homicide in reference to a lethal October fireplace at a Lakewood condominium complicated.
The teenager, whom The Put up will not be naming as a result of he’s a juvenile, additionally pleaded responsible in Jefferson County court docket to first-degree arson, amongst different expenses.
The First Judicial district lawyer in November charged the teenager and a 12-year-old with first-degree homicide and 39 different counts associated to the Oct. 31 fireplace.
The blaze killed 31-year-old Kathleen Payton and her 10-year-old daughter Jazmine Payton-Aguayo and displaced all 32 models within the complicated.
The 12-year-old defendant didn’t enter a plea throughout Monday’s listening to, Fox 31 reported.
The 15-year-old can be sentenced Sept. 15.
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