{"id":91138,"date":"2017-02-25T02:04:57","date_gmt":"2017-02-25T07:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=91138"},"modified":"2017-02-25T02:04:57","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T07:04:57","slug":"teen-girl-who-called-911-to-say-she-shot-dad-remains-jailed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/02\/25\/teen-girl-who-called-911-to-say-she-shot-dad-remains-jailed\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen girl who called 911 to say she shot dad remains jailed"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A 14-year-old Ohio girl charged with killing her father told a judge Friday she understood the allegation against her, while authorities tried to learn what led up to the fatal shooting and her sobbing call to 911. (Photo: Jeff Kubina\/Flickr<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

CINCINNATI\u2014A 14-year-old Ohio girl charged with killing her father told a judge Friday she understood the allegation against her, while authorities tried to learn what led up to the fatal shooting and her sobbing call to 911.<\/p>\n

Butler County Juvenile Judge Kathleen Romans ordered the girl, who had replied simply \u201cyes\u201d when asked if she understood, to remain held in juvenile detention on an aggravated murder charge. The judge scheduled a pretrial hearing March 3.<\/p>\n

Defence attorney Matt Fritsch told reporters it was early in the case and he was still gathering information.<\/p>\n

Police released a 911 tape of a call made shortly before 7 a.m. Thursday. The caller urged the dispatcher to have \u201csomebody come and put me in handcuffs.\u201d When the dispatcher asked why, the caller replied: \u201cI just shot my Dad.\u201d The dispatcher asked: \u201cYou just did what to your dad?\u201d She answered: \u201cI just shot him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Police said they found James Allen Ponder, 71, shot in the face in a bedroom in the family’s Hamilton home, about 25 miles north of Cincinnati; he died at a hospital after being flown there by helicopter. Hamilton Police Sgt. Brian Robinson said he was shot with a handgun. Robinson said the girl’s mother and siblings apparently weren’t home at the time.<\/p>\n

Authorities allege she loaded the gun with the intent to kill.<\/p>\n

A motive and other details remain under investigation, Robinson said Friday.<\/p>\n

The dispatcher asked the sobbing girl what happened and whether she \u201cjust shot him,\u201d and she repeatedly said: \u201cI don’t know …. I don’t know.\u201d She also said repeatedly that she was sorry.<\/p>\n

She said she put the gun in another bedroom \u201cwhere they keep the guns.\u201d She said she was calling from outside the house and had only her phone in her hand and her backpack on the ground. She asked what would happen to her, and the dispatcher told her he didn’t know.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press generally doesn’t name juveniles charged with crimes.<\/p>\n

Neighbour Rhonda Campo said she had lived near the family for 20 years but didn’t know them well. She described them as quiet.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don’t know what can go through a little kid’s mind,\u201d Campo told WCPO-TV. \u201cNobody knows the circumstances or what went on.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Hamilton-Middletown Journal-News reported that a bailiff in the courtroom Friday handed a box of tissues to weeping family members in the packed courtroom for the brief detention hearing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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