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Ind. AMBER Alert Subject Now Charged With Her Mother's Murder

(CBS) – Chastinea Reeves, the 15-year-old Gary, Ind. girl who was the focus of an AMBER Alert earlier this week, has now been charged in the stabbing death of her mother.

Thirty-four-year-old Jamie Garnett was found dead early Monday. The Lake County Coroner's Office says she was stabbed to death.

Authorities had issued an AMBER Alert on Monday; Gary police said Reeves could be in "extreme danger."

The teen had gone to a relative's house and said her mother had been the victim of a crime. Shortly after arriving, the teen vanished. She was found Tuesday, Gary police reported.

Reeves is charged with murder and being held as a juvenile defendant in Crown Point. Lake County, Ind. prosecutors have filed a petition seeking to move the case into adult court. A hearing is set for April 15.

Neighbors expressed shock at the news.

"Wow -- how do you kill your mother?" Jay Lew said Thursday. "I remember (Garnett) taking her children to school in the mornings and coming home from work, just being with children."

Breaking news out of Crown Point, Indiana. On CBS Chicago at 5PM.

Posted by Suzanne Le Mignot on Thursday, February 16, 2017

 

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