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Judge: Teen charged with killing 5 relatives to stay jailed
A judge has ruled that an Alabama teenager charged with killing five family members will remain jailed pending trial
ByThe Associated Press
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ATHENS, Ala. A judge ruled that an Alabama teenager charged with killing five family members will remain jailed pending trial, denying a request by defense attorneys to move him to a juvenile detention center.
Mason Sisk, 16, is charged with capital murder in the 2019 slayings of his parents and three siblings in Elkmont. Sisk is being held at the Limestone County jail and his defense attorneys say he s being kept in solitary confinement because Alabama law requires that juveniles be housed separately from adult inmates.
Alabama 16-year-old charged with killing 5 family members to stay in jail
Updated Feb 16, 2021;
Posted Feb 16, 2021
Mason Sisk, 15, is charged with capital murder in the shooting deaths of his father, adoptive mother and three siblings. (Limestone County Sheriff s Office)
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By Marian Accardi The Decatur Daily, Ala. (TNS) and Tribune Media Services
A Limestone County judge has denied the request of a 16-year-old charged with capital murder for the slaying of his family to be transferred from jail to a juvenile detention facility.
Circuit Judge Robert Baker’s order denying the motion by Mason Sisk’s attorneys was filed Friday afternoon. A virtual hearing on the motion to transfer Sisk was held Thursday.
A judge has set the April 7 court date for Mason Sisk, who s charged as an adult with capital murder in the deaths of his father, mother and three siblings in Elkmont, Alabama, in 2019, WAAY-TV reported.
Sisk was 14 at the time of the slayings. The now-16-year-old is being held in the Limestone County Jail without bond.
A mugshot of teenage murder suspect Mason Sisk. (Limestone County Sheriff s Office)(Supplied)
Limestone County Circuit Judge Bob Baker, meanwhile, is considering a request to let him be transferred back to the Tennessee Valley Juvenile Detention Centre.
The teenager was placed in the county jail after he was charged in November as an adult in the case. His lawyers, Michael Sizemore and Lucas Beaty, said the law requires Sisk to be separated from adult inmates but they argue solitary confinement is not appropriate for him.
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