“He said his daughter said she and her friend were walking in a park on the day of the murder when a white man came up to them and
‘coerced’ them into going to Johnson’s home,” said the site. “She said the man grabbed a rusty axe from Johnson’s garage and beat Johnson to death.”
“The father said his daughter held her hands over her friend’s ears so she couldn’t hear what was happening,
and that the man had told the girls he would kill them and their families if they told anyone what happened,
” the outlet continued, with the man reportedly saying the “once active, outgoing teenagers were now quiet and reserved and he had no idea why.”
The two filed not guilty pleas in juvenile court last week; the judge turned down a request to make the case’s charge paperwork and affidavit public, so there won’t be many facts available for the time being.
The two cannot be tried as adults in Kansas since they were just 13 years old when the murder occurred, according to the prosecutor’s office, as reported by KAKE.
