Boy Returns to L.A. to Face Murder Charge
A Sun Valley teenager suspected of shooting his mother to death was being returned to Los Angeles from Washington state Thursday night to face murder charges.
The boy, who will be 16 next week, agreed to return to California voluntarily during a Juvenile Court hearing Thursday morning in Kelso, a small town in rural southern Washington.
He was accompanied by Los Angeles police detectives who traveled to Washington to question him in connection with the death of his mother, Lois Marie O’Donnell, 51, who was killed last Friday in the Sun Valley home she shared with her son. An autopsy Thursday concluded that she died from a gunshot to the head.
Police have said they suspect that the boy killed his mother, then left town in her car, using her bank card to help finance his flight.
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