74-year-old kills teenage grandson
23 May 2012 1:30 PM IST
A 74-year-old woman has been charged with murder in the shooting death of her 17-year-old grandson.
Police said Jonathan Hoffman called police and told an emergency dispatcher that he had been shot in the chest by his grandmother, Sandra Layne, and 'was going to die.'
By the time officers arrived at the family's upscale condo in a Detroit suburb, police said at least four more shots from a .40-caliber handgun had been pumped into the high school senior.
A West Bloomfield Township detective told a judge during a Monday court hearing that eight entry and exit wounds were found in Hoffman's body after the Friday afternoon shooting in the condo he shared with his grandparents northwest of Detroit.
Layne's lawyer Jerome Sabbota has said Hoffman was troubled, Layne was afraid of her grandson and she fired her new handgun because she felt she had no choice.
Layne has been charged with open murder and is being held without bond. She stood mute in court when the charge was read, and a not guilty plea was entered on her behalf.
Hoffman had been attending an alternative high school in nearby Farmington and living with his maternal grandparents so he could complete his senior year while his divorced parents settled in Arizona, according to his father, Michael Hoffman of Scottsdale, Arizona.
Police said Jonathan Hoffman called police and told an emergency dispatcher that he had been shot in the chest by his grandmother, Sandra Layne, and 'was going to die.'
By the time officers arrived at the family's upscale condo in a Detroit suburb, police said at least four more shots from a .40-caliber handgun had been pumped into the high school senior.
A West Bloomfield Township detective told a judge during a Monday court hearing that eight entry and exit wounds were found in Hoffman's body after the Friday afternoon shooting in the condo he shared with his grandparents northwest of Detroit.
Layne's lawyer Jerome Sabbota has said Hoffman was troubled, Layne was afraid of her grandson and she fired her new handgun because she felt she had no choice.
Layne has been charged with open murder and is being held without bond. She stood mute in court when the charge was read, and a not guilty plea was entered on her behalf.
Hoffman had been attending an alternative high school in nearby Farmington and living with his maternal grandparents so he could complete his senior year while his divorced parents settled in Arizona, according to his father, Michael Hoffman of Scottsdale, Arizona.
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