Lawrence Co. boy charged with murder is on trial list for September

NEW CASTLE, Pa. — An 11-year-old boy who’s charged in the shotgun slaying of his father’s pregnant girlfriend is still being prosecuted as an adult, with his case on Lawrence County’s trial list for September.

David Acker, co-counsel for Jordan Brown, said defense lawyers are waiting for a report to come back from an expert on juvenile psychology and delinquency before they petition to have Jordan’s case moved into the county’s juvenile system.

Jordan, meanwhile, is at the Edmund L. Thomas Adolescent Center in Erie, Pa., where he’s been for most of the time since his arrest after the slaying of Kenzie Houk, who was nine months’ pregnant with a boy, in February.

Houk was killed the morning of Feb. 20 at the farmhouse she rented with Jordan’s father, Christopher Brown, near Wampum, Pa. Police and prosecutors allege the boy shot her in the back of the head as she lay in bed.

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