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CINCINNATI (WCPO) — A 16-year-old charged in 2021 with 4 murders will be prosecuted as an adult.
"The defendant is in his own category," Hamilton County Asst. Prosecutor Linda Scott said. "We're talking about a person who executed people."
Scott said the teen committed violent crimes as an "audition" for getting paid to kill people.
On Feb. 1, 2021, he lured a man to a location, then shot & wounded him & shot & killed the man's friend, Terrance North.
"This was his baby," Scott said. "His robbery setup. His idea. This was a case where he was the lone shooter."
Scott said after that shooting, the boy participated with adult co-defendants in two alleged contract killings later that month.
According to prosecutors, Carl Godfrey was hired in January 2021 to kill Jeremiah Campbell. Godfrey & Jason Gray shot Campbell to death on Jan. 31, 2021.
On Feb. 16, 2021, Godfrey sent Gray, Mario Gordon & the boy to complete a second killing for which he had been contracted. The trio, driven by 49-year-old Connor Inabnitt, spotted the target inside a vehicle with passengers & opened fire.
The target survived. Deontay Otis, 1 of the vehicle’s other occupants, died on the scene.
The final shooting occurred 2 days later when Godfrey & the boy when prosecutors said they shot & killed Donnell Steele.
The judge set his bond at $2.7 million cash. That's $100,000 cash for each of the active 27 counts he's facing, she said.
He remains in juvenile detention.
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