Prosecutor To Seek Death Penalty In Principal Murder
Shelby County prosecutors want the teenager accused of stabbing his principal to death in a Memphis Christian school tried as an adult.
Eduardo Marmolejo was ordered held without bond and ordered to undergo a mental evaluation by a Juvenile Court judge during a hearing Thursday.
The 16-year-old has been charged with planning to kill 49-year-old Suzette York for months. York’s body was found by a teacher in a classroom on Wednesday at Memphis Junior Academy, a Seventh-day Adventist school of less than 100 students.
Shelby County District Attorney Amy Weirich told The Commercial Appeal on Friday she would seek to have Marmolejo tried as an adult.
If convicted as an adult, he would have to serve 51 years before he was eligible for parole.
