Posted on 11/17/2019 12:29:20 PM PST by Morgana
CANTON — A 14-year-old boy killed a teen girl execution style because he apparently believed a false rumor she was pregnant and thought he was the father, according to prosecutors.
Isiah Lynch pleaded true — the juvenile equivalent of guilty —Wednesday to a murder charge for the March fatal shooting of 14-year-old Sylvia McGee.
Lynch was 13 at the time of McGee’s death.
Following a plea hearing in juvenile court, Assistant Prosecutor Michelle Cordova said Lynch told police he believed McGee was pregnant.
“That is what I believe got this whole thing started,” she said, noting McGee was not his girlfriend. “There was no evidence of any other reason for this.”
Cordova said the girl had not been pregnant, citing the results of McGee’s autopsy.
Lynch also pleaded true to obstructing justice for giving false and misleading information to police and an accompanying gun specification.
He is scheduled to be sentenced Jan. 7. Stark County Family Court Judge Rosemarie Hall is presiding over the case.
Several of the victim’s family members attended the plea hearing.
Carlina Hanley, McGee’s great aunt, reacted afterward.
“It’s still not closure,” she said, her voice breaking. ”(Lynch) should have just admitted it from the beginning.
“She didn’t deserve that,” Hanley said. “She wasn’t that type of a kid. She was upbeat and funny. I just can’t believe that he did that.”
Tears streamed down her cheeks as she recalled a teen who often confided in her and sought advice.
Hanley remembers a bright spirit; a girl who helped others, making sure her grandmother took her medicine.
McGee had improved her grades and aspired to be a beautician.
“She talked about owning her own business,” Hanley said. “She talked about moving to New York and taking her maternal grandmother with her.
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Worst story this year
He’s 14?
What’s with being the least you can be, punk? So committed to being a loser that others must pay so to substantiate your low IQ and deficient personality.
Life was merit based not so long ago.
People who caution against hate are evil.
Maybe, but the upside is that at least he won’t get pregnant.
The school system and the media culture do their best to encourage degeneracy.
Looks like a seasoned prison convict.
A "true" punk ass killer. This is his first. It will not be his last.
Total creep. What was a cute girl like that doing with him? He’s so obviously bad news.
Looks like a young Elvis
Pleaded true? I guess in as the accusation is true? Never heard that one.
Are you kidding? Look at him. He's as big as a full-grown man. He'll be the one making boy bitches out of all the other kids at juvie.
Sorry but I don't believe that's the photo of a 14 year old boy........
There wasn’t much of this when I was a kid. At least I think there wasn’t. I was not involved in such. I am really, really glad of that disinvolvment, too. I am still remote and uninvolved...nothing has convinced me to be otherwise once I became an adult. It seems to lead to nothing but sadness and dismay and very disengaged people.
Who was supervising the so-called boy and establishing his morals, etc? I bet no one except his peer group.
You gotta love it when the parent can’t even spell the name they give a kid.
And his next sex? Well, you can’t get em pregnant that way..
And apparently, “tattoo industry” has expanded to serve kids.
By age 18 he will back out on the street to do it again.
He looks much older esp. with the large chest tat. I come from a long line of children who developed slowly.
A study was done that proved girls raised in homes without a father matured quicker than those girl who had a dad to take care of her during her formative years.
Beautiful young girl caught up in this filth. WHY?? Blacks NEED to turn back to God.
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