Wednesday, May 10, 2000
Teen to be tried as adult in killing
'It's tragic business,' judge says
By Tom O'Neill
The Cincinnati Enquirer
BATAVIA TWP. — A 17-year-old Miami Township boy on Tuesday became just the second juvenile in Clermont County in the past decade to face a murder trial in adult court.
Daniel Carnes is accused of fatally shooting his friend, 17-year-old Jake Gilligan, also of Miami Township, in the head while the victim sat on the couch of Mr. Carnes' home in the Vista Woods Mobile Home Park off Deerfield Road.
After the brief bind-over hearing before Juvenile Court Judge Stephanie Wyler, Mr. Carnes was taken to Clermont County Jail, where he is being held on $100,000 bail on a charge of murder.
The case will likely go before the county grand jury within two weeks, Prosecutor Don White said Tuesday.
Once probable cause was established, the bind-over was mandatory because the defendant is 15 or older, in accordance with Ohio law.
The defense offered no ev idence, which is common for such hearings.
“It's tragic business, for the victim but also for him,” Judge Wyler said Tuesday.
“Regardless of how this plays out, his life and his family's lives will never be the same.”
When police arrived at the home the morning of April 8, they found Jake on the couch with a single gunshot wound to the back of the head. It was unclear exactly how long he'd been dead.
Police say there had been a gathering there the previous night.
Mr. Carnes, in the kitchen when police arrived after a phone call from Mr. Carnes' girlfriend, had minor facial injuries. He was treated at Bethesda North Hospital, and released the same day.
He was then charged with juvenile delinquency by reason of murder, underage alcohol consumption, drug abuse and tampering with evidence.
Mr. Carnes' parents were out of town at the time. He'd been in juvenile detention until Tuesday.
It was only the second homicide in the township in the past five years.
It also was only the second time in Clermont a minor was charged with murder-related juvenile delinquency since Judge Wyler took the bench in February 1991.
The other case involved a Goshen Township teen charged with killing his grandmother.
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