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Local news >> 'I just killed a kid' * Last Updated: 5:43 am | Tuesday, March 21, 2006 'I just killed a kid' This time when 15-year-old Larry Mugrage walked by, Charles Martin had a shotgun BY WILLIAM A WEATHERS | ENQUIRER STAFF WRITER UNION TOWNSHIP - Fifteen-year-old Larry Mugrage was on his way home to get a video game when he was shot dead, said a neighbor whose teenage stepsons and brother were regular playmates of the victim. The afternoon shooting followed a confrontation four hours earlier between the teen and another neighbor, 66-year-old Charles Martin, after Mugrage had stepped on the lawn of Martin's Hawthorne Drive home, Holt said. ADVERTISEMENT "He came out cussing at Larry," said Holt, 24, who lives several houses away from Martin's and Mugrage's homes on the same side of the street. An autopsy will determine if more than one blast struck the victim. Martin said the victim, his parents and other youths had been harassing him for five years. Investigators plan to present the case to a grand jury Wednesday, Lt. Martin was arraigned Monday afternoon in Clermont County Municipal Court. Judge James A Shriver ordered him held without bond pending a Thursday hearing. Martin, handcuffed and dressed in an orange jail uniform, did not speak during the hearing. Assistant Clermont County Prosecutor Mark Tekulve had requested that Martin be held without bond, calling the shooting "essentially a premeditated act" that was both "cruel" and "cowardly." "We understand the young man was in the street when the shooting occurred," Tekulve said. Residents of Hawthorne Drive said Martin lived alone, and they would often see him walking in the neighborhood. John Abegglen, assistant superintendent of the West Clermont School District, said the Clermont County Crisis Response Team spent the day at Glen Este High School, where Mugrage was a freshman in the School of American Studies. Ten counselors were on hand to assist students and staff who expressed a need to talk about Mugrage's death. Three of the counselors were assigned to attend all of Mugrage's classes in case they were needed during conversations in the classroom. Abegglen expects the crisis team to be at school for a few more days. In a letter sent home Monday with students, Glen Este Principal Dennis Ashworth outlined crisis resources available to the district's students and gave parents advice on how to help their children deal with the traumatic event. "The West Clermont community experienced a great loss yesterday with the sudden death of one of our ninth-grade students, Larry Mugrage," Ashworth's letter said. Sunday, Holt's 13-year-old brother, who also lives in the neighborhood, was walking with Mugrage when Martin first confronted them about walking in his yard. Mugrage, who spent the four hours between the confrontation and shooting at her house, "was a good kid," Holt said. All the kids - even the little ones (in the neighborhood) - loved him. Holt said she was aware of one other incident when Martin had complained about kids walking across his lawn. He spoke to her husband, saying he would appreciate it if he'd keep the kids from running through his yard, she recalled. Martin's lawn is void of ornamentation except for a pole flying American and US Navy flags.
Where the shooting took place (PDF) Charles Martin, 66, is being held without bail at the Clermont County Jail. Martin, who wore a jail uniform for a Monday arraignment, told police earlier that he was upset that a teen was walking in his yard. The Enquirer / Glenn Hartong Charles Martin, 66, is being held without bail at the Clermont County Jail. Martin, who wore a jail uniform for a Monday arraignment, told police earlier that he was upset that a teen was walking in his yard. The Hawthorne Drive home at left is where Charles Martin lives in Clermont County's Union Township. Larry Mugrage, 15, lived with his family in the house at right. Prosecutors say the boy was in the street when he was shot at 3:21 pm Sunday. The Enquirer / Glenn Hartong The Hawthorne Drive home at left is where Charles Martin lives in Clermont County's Union Township. Larry Mugrage, 15, lived with his family in the house at right. Prosecutors say the boy was in the street when he was shot at 3:21 pm Sunday.
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