On Friday February 20, 2009, 11 year old Jordan Brown murdered his father's pregnant fiancee. Brown had a kiddie shotgun, and killed Kenzie Houk, while she slept on her bed, then hopped on the bus to school. He allegedly shot Houk in the back of the head apparently because of jealousy of the unborn baby.
"There was an issue with jealousy. He told my son stuff," said Houk's brother-in-law, Jason Kraner, 34, who described the boy as "rough." (New York Post). Brown had also mentioned that he did want to kill Kenzie. Her 4-year old daughter was eating breakfast and came upstairs to discover her dead mother an hour later. The little girl ran outside yelling that her "mommy" was dead, to three tree trimmers. The unborn infant had died several minutes after Houk ran out of oxygen. Brown was pulled out of class at 11 a.m. and questioned by state police. Brown had given a phony story sating that he saw a suspicious black truck on the property, which led to an hours long investigation. However, when the other Houk's daughter, 7 years old, was interviewed, she said she heard a "loud bang" and saw Brown with the shotgun that he and his father hunt with . It is believed that Brown was jealous over the daughters and the unborn child and probably felt "overpowered". He is being charged as an adult with two counts of homicide. Kenzie Houk loved Jordan Brown dearly, states the family. She never saw him as a rough boy and believed they all lived happy.
I'm glad this 11 year old is being charged as an adult. He knew what he was doing, it was already planned, therefore this can't be seen as an accident. However, since I don;t have children myself I can't say that this was bad parenting, because the situation is still unknown. -Post Wire Services
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OMG this story is soo sad i cannot believe that an 11 year old could kill. maybe she wasnt treating him fairly and he was afraid that he was going to lose his father to his new fiance and their baby n her two other daughters... thats no excuse for him but this is such a sad story
ReplyDeletewow this is a crazy story. how can a kid have the guts to kill someone and then go to school like nothing is wrong. i believe that the parents are at fault but he should be charged as an adult.
ReplyDeleteThis is crazy. Good article, Mebi. We had a good conversation about this article in our other class. There is no answers as to why this 11-year-old would do this. No ones life could possibly be that bad to take someone else's life.
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