by John K Wiley, Associated Press
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - Prosecutors have asked a judge to try a 14-year-old boy in adult court for a drug robbery in which one man died and two others were wounded.
Drake McDaniel remained in the Spokane County Juvenile Detention Center without bond Tuesday. He was arrested Saturday for investigation of first-degree murder and three counts of first-degree assault stemming from the fatal shooting Jan. 29.
Deputy Spokane County Prosecutor Jack Driscoll on Monday filed motions to move McDaniel’s case to adult court. A hearing on his motion has not been scheduled.
Witnesses identified McDaniel and two accomplices as the individuals involved in the fatal shooting of Cody Glotfelty, 22, during a robbery involving four ounces of Canadian marijuana, police said.
Solomon Struckman, 21, and his 20-year-old brother, Vincent, were wounded. They were listed in stable condition in a hospital Tuesday.
Police arrested Izaac Innes, 21, and 17-year-old Anthony Millspaugh after the shootings. They are being held in the Spokane County Jail on $1 million bond, charged with first-degree murder and first-degree assault.
McDaniel has been arrested in the past, accused of second-degree assault and possession of a controlled substance.
His father, Daa’im Farrukh, is serving a 30-year sentence for second-degree murder in an Arizona prison, The Spokesman-Review reported in its Tuesday editions.
Farrukh pleaded guilty in July 1991 to shooting a man in the head after an argument over drug money, records indicate.
“History repeats itself, unfortunately for this kid,” said Bill Fitzgerald, spokesman for the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office in Phoenix.
McDaniel’s mother, Denise Ashley of Spokane, told the newspaper her son’s circumstances are not connected to those of his father, formerly known as Gregory Jerome McDaniel.
“He doesn’t even know his father,” she said. “He hasn’t even seen him since he was 1 year old. What he did, or is accused of, isn’t right. He’s old enough to make a right and wrong decision. I told him that when I visited him. But his crime and his father’s crime, they don’t coincide with one another.”
Ashley said her son probably followed the lead of Millspaugh and Innes the night of the shooting, doing what the older men told him.