A 17-year-old and a 15-year-old have been charged with murder in last week's shooting that claimed the life of Nizzel George in north Minneapolis. According to a criminal complaint, the 17-year-old told a witness that he fired at the house where the young boy was sleeping last Tuesday.

The Ramsey County Juvenile Court Friday certified one of the four juveniles charged in an alleged gang rape of a 14-year-old girl to stand trial as an adult. Jim Her, 17, of St. Paul, was among the four boys and five men involved in the alleged November incident in a house on White Bear Avenue in St. Paul.

A grand jury has indicted a Minneapolis teen on a charge of first-degree murder in the June death of the 5-year-old boy shot as he slept on his grandmother's couch. If Stephon Shannon, 17, is found guilty of the charge, his automatic sentence would be life in prison without hope of release.

First-degree murder charges were filed Friday in Sheboygan County court against two Wisconsin teens accused of killing the great-grandmother of one of the boys. The boys, who are both 13, are accused of killing 78-year-old Barbara Olson with a hatchet and hammer while stealing jewelry and a car from Olson's home.

Fifteen-year-old Julian Kijuan Lamar Anderson, also known as Funny Mo, has been certified as an adult in the shooting death case of Nizzel George, the 5-year-old who was killed by a bullet fired into a north Minneapolis house as he slept on a couch in June. He and Stephon Shannon, 17, have been charged with felony murder.