BATTLE CREEK, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – Calhoun County District Judge Judge Paul Beardslee is deciding if two teenagers will go on trial for shooting and killing two-year-old Kai Turner of Battle Creek as he was sleeping September 20.
18-year-old Martavon Nelson and 16-year-old Jaylen Smith are both charged with open murder. The two were in court for their preliminary hearing yesterday, with police saying Turner and his family were not the targets and the teens were trying to shoot others in a different apartment.
Calhoun County Prosecutor David Gilbert says just because the wrong person was killed does not take away premeditation.
It’s still murder and they also took the innocent life of a child they all deserve life in prison