11 Year Old Charged With Killing Father’s Pregnant Fiance
An 11-year-old Pennsylvania boy, consumed with jealousy, was charged with killing his father’s fiancee – who was 8 months pregnant.
Credit: Associated Press
From the New York Daily News:
Relatives said the youngster shot 26-year-old Kenzie Houk in her bed in the family’s farmhouse in Wampum, Pa., because he was envious of the couple’s unborn son, due in two weeks.
“It’s tragic,” said a relative who did not want their name used. “They were to be married. He was jealous.”
Lawrence County police said the boy was charged with criminal homicide and criminal homicide of an unborn child.
Distraught family told the Daily News that cops said the boy shot Houk sometime around 8 a.m. Friday with his own youth-model shotgun.
He then calmly caught the bus to school with Houk’s 8-year-old daughter, they said. His father, identified by family members as Chris Brown, was at work at the time.
“Chris was paying more attention to Kenzie and the new boy coming along so he was upset,” said another relative.
Houk’s body was discovered later that morning by her 4-year-old daughter, who ran out of the house crying, the relatives said.
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February 21, 2009 at 5:57 pm
sad whats an 11 year old doing with his on shotgun
this kid felt neglected and went off the deep end
February 24, 2009 at 1:50 pm
fry the little bastard.
February 25, 2009 at 5:18 am
Selfish, disturbed people ALWAYS feel neglected no matter what anyone in society or their family do for them.
Put him away for life-NO MORE EXCUSES!!!
February 26, 2009 at 10:49 am
Re: Jordan
This is a little boy who did something terribly wrong. He is not an adult. It is the adults whom to often think of themselves first, falling quickly into lust/love, expecting their children from previous relationships to just like it because Dad or Mom is happy at the moment. Where is the biological Mother? Why was this gun not in a gun safe? How long was Kenzie with Jordan’s father before getting pregnant and moved in? Just because adults like each other doesn’t mean our children have to. What happened to Kenzie Houk was terrible and preventable.
February 26, 2009 at 11:14 am
Continued re: Jordan 11 years old
The focus of every article seems to be, “he was filled with jealousy, they were to be married”. Who cares if they were going to be married! There should have been some pre-marital family counseling. If the whole family knew that Jordan was jealous, what did they try to do to make this child feel more secure in his own life and home? He obviously was not adjusting to the new changes in his life.
All to often it is the new step-mother to be who is jealous of her new man’s child/children, wanting to be center of her new man’s world, coming first not second to anyone else in her man’s life and often getting pregnant to put themselves there.
February 28, 2009 at 5:44 am
Casia- Yes, “really” the boy can’t even probably spell “consecutively” or “concurrently” Oh, I asked my 11 year old yesterday if he could tell me what a “criminal code” was. My 11 year old thinks it’s a special language criminals use. He didn’t think for a second it might be a “set of laws”
Science people, science. Science tells us the frontal lobe isn’t even developed all the way. Concrete operations are the ages of 7-11. There is no superpredator children. It’s criminal/sociological “junk”
http://www.freesalim.net/and_life_to_go
Now do you people REALLY believe a 11 year old just does this? There has to be something with the father or step mother or just the kids past. His mother had cancer and had to go away when he was 5. She was fighting cancer so she did what she could. She did at one time file a protection from abuse. An 11 year old’s brain snapped cause he couldn’t handle “whatever” They need to look at what happened and WHY and not just convict and lock the kid up.
Speaking of that- whatever happened to “innocent” until proven guilty? Alot of people here have already tried and convicted him.
March 8, 2009 at 6:36 pm
Everyone seems to keep focusing on Jordan, Jordan’s age, Jordon’s education, etc. What about Kenzie’s Beautiful daughters that no longer have a mother. My poor 4 year old cousin had to find her mother dead. Her older daughter, will probably never forget hearing her mother being shot. Kenzie didn’t get a choice. Kenzie doesn’t get a second chance. Everyone has an opinion or speculation without the facts or knowledge of the entire truth. Ask yourself, How would you feel if she was YOUR mother, YOUR daughter, YOUR sister, YOUR family? Like it or not, Jordan MURDERED a LOVING, KIND, WONDERFUL MOTHER!! He deserves to be punished to the fullest extent of the law! WAKE UP PEOPLE because Jordan was not acting like a “typical” 11 year old when he committed a double homicide, thus he should not be treated as just an 11 year old boy now. I certainly do not want him going to school with my children. What happens the next time something doesn’t go Jordan’s way, huh? Go ahead, educate him and give him a second chance, so that maybe he’ll grow up to be the next unibomber, or a serial killer.
March 9, 2009 at 9:04 am
In response to Kenzie’s Cousin:
I don’t believe anyone is making light of what the daughters have been through. Not only do they grieve the loss of their mother but they are the victims of a crime. Yes, a crime, committed by an 11 year old boy named Jordan, who was to be their new step-brother.
A family lost a mother, daughter, sister, cousin, fiance carrying an unborn child, and a father lost his 11 year old son.
Focusing on Jordan, YES, most children who want their potential step-parent to disappear/be dead/go away, fantasize about ways to get them out of their life but do not commit acts of murder. All to often you hear, “Oh, he/she is just jealous, he/she will adjust”. Obviously this child was not adjusting. Obviously the child was suffering some real pain and there were signs long before he committed the act of killing his step-mom-to-be. I still would like to know if Jordan ever received any counseling after the death of his biological mother or was put on any medication for an emotional disorder?
Do we hold him accountable for a crime, teach him that his actions were wrong with serious consequences? YES! Do we charge him as an adult and put him in prison with grown men who’s brains, bodies, and rationing skills were fully developed when they committed their crimes? NO!
Do we take into consideration the emotional/mental well being of this child which led him to commit such a crime in the first place? YES!
The boy went hunting and learned what it was like to kill a living thing. The boy then used a gun to put all of his emotions and sad feelings into killing 2 human beings. It was stated that Jordan told a family member he wanted to kill Kenzie or wanted her to die. This should have been taken seriously.
The gun should should have had a trigger lock and been placed in a gun safe.
April 4, 2009 at 8:48 pm
Mother; you need to get a grip! This kid is evil. He needs to be eradicated from the gene pool a.s.a.p. This animal killed a beautiful person, a person who was as beautiful on the inside as she was outside. This was a premeditated murder. I don’t know of any 11 year old that does not know that if you place a shotgun to someone’s head and pull the trigger what the outcome will be. Unless you know more of the facts of what happened, you have no right to an opinion. His father deserves jail time also!
April 6, 2009 at 10:07 am
Roach, this mother has a grip. Are you a parent? I am a parent of 2 and I am educated in child development. There is a difference between evil and emotionally imbalanced. I am aware of the many emotions and reasoning skills of children of various ages, the chemical imbalances that become prevalent in some children, brain development, and the need to better pay attention to the children of this world and their feelings. The point is, everyone knew Jordan was struggling with his feelings and the abnormal behavior was noticed. He was dismissed as being just jealous and acting out and now a beautiful woman and an unborn child are DEAD! Jordan is an 11 year old boy, not a grown adult.
February 10, 2010 at 12:42 pm
Why were two young children; ages 8 and 9 getting themselves ready for school while the young mother slept? I think there is more to this story.
These two children should not have been getting off to school by themselves. They should not have been living in a house with guns available for their use without supervision.
This boy’s family failed him by setting him up in a situation he was not dealing with and giving him access to a gun. Children are not capable of making adult decisions. Whether he did it or not; I don’t know that anyone will ever know. But, he should not have been placed in those circumstances in the first place.
Lock up Dad and through away the key !
February 11, 2010 at 1:23 pm
Thank you my2cents, yes, there is always more to the story. I don’t feel locking up Dad will solve anything.
I agree about the open access to firearms in the home that should not have been available so easily.
I believe Jordan was broken inside for a long time and nobody recognized the seriousness of his emotional health. This was not just a case of being jealous.
We are hearing more and more of this every year and we may never get to the root of the real reasons children feel so desperate that they have no choice but to remove others from their surroundings by deadly force.
I feel for all those affected by this.
April 10, 2010 at 2:45 am
I do believe that the exposed fire arms were indeed a problem. However how the child was raised is always a huge factor in these circumstances. The child was obviously jealouse of the unborn son. Perhapse the result of a self esteem issue. Maybe he did not feel that he was loved. Low self esteem can easily cause jealousy. Maybe he had been put down by parents or even pressured too much.