Teen used app to share plan for grandfather's hatchet death
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North Carolina authorities say a teenager charged with killing his grandfather with a hatchet discussed the crime in advance with a still-unidentified person on a cellphone communications app.
The Fayetteville Observer reported (http://bit.ly/2gVO9Bl ) that according to a detective's affidavit for a search warrant the teen discussed his forming plans before attacking 63-year-old Joseph Emmett Naulty in August.
The affidavit said the boy discussed in his cellphone messages that he found the grandfather who recently moved into his home, "just kinda inconvenient."
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Sheriff's department spokesman Sgt. Sean Swain said detectives are working with the Canada-based company behind the app called Kik to identify the person messaging with the Cumberland County teen.
The 16-year-old is charged as a juvenile with first-degree murder. Prosecutors are deciding whether to try him as an adult.