12 year old to be charged as adult in double homicide

[AGDee]

I keep reading these police accounts of what supposedly happened here and don't understand at all how they have so many details unless there was a witness. How can you say something like "He hid the gun under a blanket so the 7 year old wouldn't see it". So either, the police are making HUGE assumptions or this kid talked some or the 7 year old saw the whole thing?

In any case, there is a reason that 11 year olds are not considered adults. I said this with Nathanial Abraham (who was 11 when tried as an adult in Michigan) and I maintain the same opinion today. If they are adults, treat them like adults. If they are children, treat them like children. If they aren't old enough to vote or drive, don't be trying them as adults. How can we constantly be moving the bar of "adulthood" based on what's convenient at the time?