COLORADO SPRINGS — Prosecutors expect to decide by Friday whether they will ask to have a 13-year-old boy accused of killing his 9-year-old brother and attempting to kill his mother tried as an adult.
Daniel Gudino was in court this afternoon for a juvenile-detention hearing before Magistrate Jeffrey Saufley.
The teenager was ordered to remain without bail at Spring Creek Youth Services Center in Colorado Springs pending a followup hearing Friday, when he could be charged with first-degree murder and attempted murder.
Under Colorado law, children as young as 12 can be tried as adults if they are accused of certain violent crimes, such as murder.
Wearing a light-blue detention outfit and brown sandals, his hands cuffed behind his back, Gudino sat hunched over in silence throughout the proceedings. His shaggy, light-brown hair swept over his eyes, concealing his face, and he rarely raised his chin from his chest to look over the courtroom.
Among the relatives in the courtroom were his father, Ulises, and his mother, Marina, whose right arm was in a sling.
Daniel Gudino is accused of killing his youngest brother, Ulysses, and shooting and stabbing his mother, 38, on Monday morning at the family’s home at 1837 Chapel Hills Drive.
The shooting happened at about 8 a.m., and police said they received a 911 call from the mother at 8:11 a.m.
Ulysses Gudino was pronounced dead at the scene.
Marina Gudino, a custodian at Douglass Valley Elementary School, was treated and released from a Colorado Springs hospital.
The teen’s 7-year-old sister was in the home at the time of the shooting but wasn’t injured. His 40-year-old father and a fourth child, a 12-year-old boy, were not home.
Authorities have not commented on a motive.
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