RYAN CARTER - 12 yo - / Suspect: 10 yo unnamed boy San Diego CA

Boy, 10, stabs young friend to death in San Diego

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

SAN DIEGO (KABC) --
A 10-year-old boy stabbed a young friend to death in San Diego on Monday afternoon.

Police said several boys were playing in the driveway of a home in the Lakeside district when neighbors heard screams.

The boy had stabbed his 12-year-old friend in the chest with a kitchen knife. The friend died at the hospital less than two hours later.

The 10-year-old was taken inside his home. It's unclear where he is now. "He didn't mean to do it. I heard that clearly. Then I heard them try to console him, and they took him back in the house," said witness Wayne King.

Friends of the 10-year-old said the boy had been in therapy for anger issues and took medication for ADHD.


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California boy, 10, in custody after being charged with another child's murder

By the CNN Wire Staff
updated 6:32 PM EST, Thu January 19, 2012

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• A boy, 10, is arraigned in a California court on charges of murder and felony assault
  
• He is being held in a juvenile detention center, a district attorney spokesman says
  
• The mother of the alleged victim, 12, claims her son died trying to break up a fight
  
• She describes her son as intelligent and caring, adding he was "everything to me"
  

(CNN)
-- A 10-year-old Southern California boy is in a juvenile detention
center after denying in court Thursday a charge that he murdered another
child, authorities said.

The mother of the alleged victim, Ryan
Carter, said on HLN's "Nancy Grace" show that the suspect was her
12-year-old son's "best friend." Lisa Carter, a registered nurse, said
that her son died after stepping in front of the 10-year-old as he was
trying to stab another child.

"The things we taught him cost him
his life," Carter said of her son. "We taught him don't start a fight,
don't run away from a fight (and) if you see a fight ... stop it."

The
San Diego County Sheriff's Department received a call shortly after 1
p.m. Monday about the stabbing in Lakeside, which is about 20 miles
northeast of San Diego.

Despite efforts by sheriff's deputies,
paramedics and hospital staff to save him, the boy was pronounced dead
around 2:30 p.m. Monday, the sheriff's department said in a statement.

The
San Diego County District Attorney's Office filed murder and felony
charges Wednesday against the 10-year-old suspect, said Steve Walker, a
spokesman for that office.

An attorney for the young suspect
"denied the charges" during his arraignment Thursday morning, according
to Walker. The boy -- whose name has not been made public, in accordance
with the district attorney's policies regarding juvenile suspects -- is
now being held in a juvenile detention center in the county, he added.

Lisa Carter said that the boy who stabbed her son was actually targeting another child.

"Ryan took the knife for that boy," she said, describing her son as intelligent, caring and "everything to me."

The victim's father, Glen Carter, called his son a "good ... boy with Christian values."

Since
he is a juvenile, the boy accused of killing Ryan Carter cannot be
found guilty but can be convicted on a "true finding of fact," explained
Walker.

In convicted, he would have to be released by the time
he turns 25 years old, if not earlier, the district attorney's spokesman
added.

The boy's next court date -- for a "readiness" hearing to
determine if all sides are prepared to move forward -- is scheduled for
February 23.

twinkletoes wrote:California boy, 10, in custody after being charged with another child's murder

By the CNN Wire Staff
updated 6:32 PM EST, Thu January 19, 2012

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• A boy, 10, is arraigned in a California court on charges of murder and felony assault
  
• He is being held in a juvenile detention center, a district attorney spokesman says
  
• The mother of the alleged victim, 12, claims her son died trying to break up a fight
  
• She describes her son as intelligent and caring, adding he was "everything to me"
  

(CNN)
-- A 10-year-old Southern California boy is in a juvenile detention
center after denying in court Thursday a charge that he murdered another
child, authorities said.

The mother of the alleged victim, Ryan
Carter, said on HLN's "Nancy Grace" show that the suspect was her
12-year-old son's "best friend." Lisa Carter, a registered nurse, said
that her son died after stepping in front of the 10-year-old as he was
trying to stab another child.

"The things we taught him cost him
his life," Carter said of her son. "We taught him don't start a fight,
don't run away from a fight (and) if you see a fight ... stop it."

The
San Diego County Sheriff's Department received a call shortly after 1
p.m. Monday about the stabbing in Lakeside, which is about 20 miles
northeast of San Diego.

Despite efforts by sheriff's deputies,
paramedics and hospital staff to save him, the boy was pronounced dead
around 2:30 p.m. Monday, the sheriff's department said in a statement.

The
San Diego County District Attorney's Office filed murder and felony
charges Wednesday against the 10-year-old suspect, said Steve Walker, a
spokesman for that office.

An attorney for the young suspect
"denied the charges" during his arraignment Thursday morning, according
to Walker. The boy -- whose name has not been made public, in accordance
with the district attorney's policies regarding juvenile suspects -- is
now being held in a juvenile detention center in the county, he added.

Lisa Carter said that the boy who stabbed her son was actually targeting another child.

"Ryan took the knife for that boy," she said, describing her son as intelligent, caring and "everything to me."

The victim's father, Glen Carter, called his son a "good ... boy with Christian values."

Since
he is a juvenile, the boy accused of killing Ryan Carter cannot be
found guilty but can be convicted on a "true finding of fact," explained
Walker.

In convicted, he would have to be released by the time
he turns 25 years old, if not earlier, the district attorney's spokesman
added.

The boy's next court date -- for a "readiness" hearing to
determine if all sides are prepared to move forward -- is scheduled for
February 23.

Passage John 15:13:

13Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

inmyfloridaopinion wrote:

twinkletoes wrote:California boy, 10, in custody after being charged with another child's murder

By the CNN Wire Staff
updated 6:32 PM EST, Thu January 19, 2012

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• A boy, 10, is arraigned in a California court on charges of murder and felony assault
  
• He is being held in a juvenile detention center, a district attorney spokesman says
  
• The mother of the alleged victim, 12, claims her son died trying to break up a fight
  
• She describes her son as intelligent and caring, adding he was "everything to me"
  

(CNN)
-- A 10-year-old Southern California boy is in a juvenile detention
center after denying in court Thursday a charge that he murdered another
child, authorities said.

The mother of the alleged victim, Ryan
Carter, said on HLN's "Nancy Grace" show that the suspect was her
12-year-old son's "best friend." Lisa Carter, a registered nurse, said
that her son died after stepping in front of the 10-year-old as he was
trying to stab another child.

"The things we taught him cost him
his life," Carter said of her son. "We taught him don't start a fight,
don't run away from a fight (and) if you see a fight ... stop it."

The
San Diego County Sheriff's Department received a call shortly after 1
p.m. Monday about the stabbing in Lakeside, which is about 20 miles
northeast of San Diego.

Despite efforts by sheriff's deputies,
paramedics and hospital staff to save him, the boy was pronounced dead
around 2:30 p.m. Monday, the sheriff's department said in a statement.

The
San Diego County District Attorney's Office filed murder and felony
charges Wednesday against the 10-year-old suspect, said Steve Walker, a
spokesman for that office.

An attorney for the young suspect
"denied the charges" during his arraignment Thursday morning, according
to Walker. The boy -- whose name has not been made public, in accordance
with the district attorney's policies regarding juvenile suspects -- is
now being held in a juvenile detention center in the county, he added.

Lisa Carter said that the boy who stabbed her son was actually targeting another child.

"Ryan took the knife for that boy," she said, describing her son as intelligent, caring and "everything to me."

The victim's father, Glen Carter, called his son a "good ... boy with Christian values."

Since
he is a juvenile, the boy accused of killing Ryan Carter cannot be
found guilty but can be convicted on a "true finding of fact," explained
Walker.

In convicted, he would have to be released by the time
he turns 25 years old, if not earlier, the district attorney's spokesman
added.

The boy's next court date -- for a "readiness" hearing to
determine if all sides are prepared to move forward -- is scheduled for
February 23.

Passage John 15:13:

13Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.