SEQUIM — A 14-year-old Sequim boy charged with attempting to kill three football coaches will not be tried as an adult.
Both the prosecution and defense agreed in a Clallam County juvenile court hearing this week that a hearing to determine if the case should go to Superior Court is not needed, court records show.
He was charged in November with three counts of first-degree attempted murder and one count each of first-degree robbery, second-degree assault, second-degree unlawful possession of a firearm and second-degree taking a motor vehicle without permission, all felonies.
Court records indicate the boy dressed in camouflage clothing and face paint, stole his stepmother’s minivan at gunpoint and drove to Sequim High School with a plan to kill the football coaches for being punished at a football camp last summer.
The boy was not a Sequim High student.
Headed out on highway
When he discovered the coaches had departed for a game in Tacoma, he allegedly headed east on U.S. Highway 101.
Officers arrested him at the east end of the Hood Canal Bridge after he allegedly led authorities on a high-speed highway chase through Clallam and Jefferson counties and into Kitsap County, where he crashed into three other vehicles, according to charging documents.
The boy pleaded innocent to the charges on Wednesday, and the case will continue in juvenile court, with the next hearing set for Feb. 2 to determine a judge pro-tempore to try the case.