North Carolina teen charged with trying to kill grandmother by poisoning pot of collard greens
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Authorities say a North Carolina teenager tried to kill her grandmother by dumping insecticide and termite killer into a pot of collard greens.
Cumberland County District Attorney Billy West said Friday that 17-year-old Tyt'ana Lisa-Nicole Johnson of Fayetteville was charged with two counts of attempted first-degree murder. A friend of the grandmother's also ate the greens. Both were treated at a hospital and released.
The Fayetteville Observer quoted (http://bit.ly/1iWtmtb) the grandmother as saying the teenager was angry because her cellphone was taken away. The paper reported that Johnson poisoned the greens while her grandmother was attending Easter services.
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Johnson is being held in the county jail on $500,000 bail. Jail records didn't indicate whether she had an attorney.
Under North Carolina criminal law, anyone 16 years and older is considered an adult.