From ABC News: Two Florida teenagers accused of plotting to kill a classmate in a “blood ritual” will remain held in jail without bond, after prosecutors argued that footage of the two laughing in a patrol vehicle following their arrest showed they continue to pose a threat.
Isabelle Valdez, 15, and Lois Lippert, 14 — both students at Lake Brantley High School in Altamonte Springs — were arrested in late January after police investigated an anonymous tip reporting the alleged murder plot.
The victim reportedly reminded Valdez of Adam Lanza, the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooter, and “she believed if she killed the victim, she would have a blood bond with Adam Lanza, which would resurrect him from the dead,” prosecutors stated in court filings. Valdez planned to “leave flowers at the scene and smoke a cigarette after the homicide was completed,” prosecutors stated.
FortifyFl received a tip on Jan. 22 about Valdez’s plan to kill someone from the school on Jan. 23. Valdez allegedly planned to use a knife to cut the victim’s throat or stab him in the stomach in a school bathroom. A knife was found in Valdez’s backpack on Jan. 23.
Lippert allegedly aided the murder plot by supplying items, helping sharpen a knife, and drawing “graphic and disturbing” sketches of the victim for Valdez, prosecutors say.
Both teens were charged as adults with attempted premeditated murder, attempted felony murder, and other counts.
Read more at ABC News
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