Hearing held in case of 11-year-old murder suspect

NEW CASTLE, Pa. – Police questioned an 11-year-old boy about the shooting death of his father’s girlfriend without telling the father.

That’s according to testimony the father, Chris Brown, gave Thursday during a hearing in Lawrence County Common Pleas Court. The hearing had been requested by the boy’s defense counsel in an attempt to suppress statements the boy made during the questioning. If Judge Dominic Motto agrees, a jury in the trial of Jordan Brown, 11, wouldn’t hear the evidence. The boy is accused of the shooting.

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