One of three people charged with attempted murder in the Marriottsville shooting of a 15-year-old has pleaded guilty, according to the Howard County State’s Attorney’s Office.
Jury selection was scheduled to begin Monday, but the jury was not yet seated when Chiquita Sketers, of Randallstown, pleaded guilty to attempted first-degree murder and use of a firearm during a felony, according to Wayne Kirwan, spokesman for the Howard County State’s Attorney’s Office.
Her sentencing is scheduled for July 5.
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Howard County police say that on June 19, Donald George Peoples and Laura Christian Karr abducted the 15 year old from near his Reisterstown home. Then they picked up Sketers, according to police, who brought a long barrel rifle.
According to a statement made by the victim, when Sketers got in the car, she began asking him questions and “told him that he was going to die while loading the rifle with ammunition,” according to court documents.
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Police say Karr, Peoples and Sketers drove the minor to Old Frederick Road in Marriottsville and forced him out of the car at gunpoint. As he walked away from the car, according to police, Peoples shot him in the back of the head.
The other two people facing charges in the shooting, Donald George .
Peoples’ trial is scheduled to begin in late June; Karr’s is scheduled for mid-July.
This story will be updated.
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