AGOURA HILLS : Teen-Agers May Be Tried as Adults in Fatal Stabbing
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department will ask that a 15-year-old Thousand Oaks boy and a 17-year-old Agoura Hills boy be prosecuted as adults in the stabbing death of a Los Angeles Police Department detective’s son, deputies said Wednesday.
Investigators said the two juveniles were among a group of four teen-agers who attacked Mike McLoren and James Farris III on Monday, stabbing 16-year-old Farris to death and wounding McLoren, apparently during a botched attempt to steal some of McLoren’s property.
Investigators said they are still looking for another suspect, 18-year-old Jason Holland of Thousand Oaks.
The request that the juveniles be tried as adults will be made when the case is presented to the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office for prosecution, said Sheriff’s Detective Bill Neumann. If prosecutors agree to the request, they will need to get approval from a Juvenile Court judge at a competency hearing.
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