A 15-year-old Vernal boy was charged Thursday with aggravated murder in Utah’s 8th District Juvenile Court. He is accused of breaking into a stranger’s home and stabbing three people — killing one — and bragging about the crime to friends after.
The teen also faces two charges of attempted aggravated murder and a count of aggravated burglary.
Charging documents allege the youth climbed through a window of a Vernal home in the early hours of Sept. 13 where an elderly couple and their adult son were sleeping.
As the teen broke in, 84-year-old Cal Dee Reynolds woke up, saw the teen and “verbally confronted him,” charges state.