http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/08/us/jesse-dewitt-osborne-south-carolina-school-shooting-jacob-hall.html 2016-10-07 19:45:08 Prosecutors Seek to Try Teenager as Adult After Shooting at South Carolina School Jesse Dewitt Osborne, 14, has been charged with murder for killing his father in his home and a 6-year-old boy at an elementary school in Townville last month. === Prosecutors in South Carolina say they will seek to try a 14-year-old as an adult on charges that he murdered his father before fatally wounding a 6-year-old boy in a According to a statement written on Thursday by the office of the 10th Circuit solicitor, Chrissy Adams, prosecutors had filed a petition asking the court to transfer the case of the teenager, Jesse Dewitt Osborne, from Family Court to the Court of General Sessions, where he would be tried on murder and other charges as an adult. A hearing on the request will be set after Mr. Osborne is evaluated by the Department of Juvenile Justice, the statement said. In an episode that has shaken the small community in northwest South Carolina, Mr. Osborne is One of the boys, Jacob Hall, Mr. Osborne Frank L. Eppes, the lawyer for Mr. Osborne, did not immediately return a telephone message left at his office early on Friday, but an assistant emailed a statement that had been released by the Osborne family after the shooting that said they were “in mourning for both our loss and for injuries to others.” Prosecutors did not reply to an email requesting further details on Friday. The authorities have not spoken of a motive for the shooting, and there was no known connection between Mr. Osborne and the school or the victims, officials have said. His mother was at work and saw the news of the shootings on television, local authorities have said. The shootings shook the town, about 40 miles southwest of Greenville. About 1,000 residents from Townville, which Renae Hall, his mother, told