NOBLESVILLE, Ind. (WDRB) -- An Indiana judge has ordered a 13-year-old boy to be the responsibility of the state juvenile court system until he's 18 for shooting his teacher and a classmate, saying he doesn't believe the teen's apology.
The boy admitted last week to shooting Jason Seaman and 13-year-old Ella Whistler during the May 25 attack at Noblesville West Middle School in suburban Indianapolis.
Hamilton County Judge Paul Felix gave the boy the most harsh sentence he could. Felix said the boy didn't show any remorse for the shooting and that he planned the attack on his own. Felix rejected a request from the boy's attorneys that he be sent to a private treatment facility.
During a hearing last week, the boy's mother testified that he took a key to a gun safe in their home to get the weapon he used to shoot a classmate seven times and a science teacher three times.
Investigators said the teen's online history was filled with searches about school shootings. He also looked for a "blueprint" of the school.
The boy's name hasn't been published by media outlets because he's charged as a juvenile. He was remanded to the custody of the Indiana Department of Corrections at the end of Wednesday's hearing.
Fox 59 reports that someone as young as 12 years old can be tried as an adult for murder in Indiana, but the statute has been interpreted to not include attempted murder, according to Hamilton County Prosecutor D. Lee Buckingham.
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