Cleveland Teen Stabbing: Prosecutors File 42-Count Superseding Indictment Against Devin Thompson
The Cuyahoga County Prosecutor's Office in Ohio announced on October 21 that prosecutors have filed a superseding indictment against Devin Thompson totaling 42 counts.
Prosecutors allege that at about 5:55 a.m. on October 13, Thompson stabbed 16-year-old Mitanna Penn to death at a residence near Loop Drive and Division Avenue in Cleveland and sexually assaulted another 16-year-old girl. Thompson was arrested two days later; at the time of the alleged offenses, he was the subject of an active arrest warrant in a rape case.
The 42 counts include 2 counts of aggravated murder, 1 of murder, 2 of aggravated burglary, 5 of rape, 1 of kidnapping, 2 of felonious assault, 13 counts involving sexually oriented material concerning a minor, 13 counts of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor, 1 of tampering with evidence, 1 of menacing by stalking and 1 of aggravated menacing. Thompson is to be arraigned at a later date at the Cuyahoga County Justice Center.
(Pictured: downtown Cleveland, file photo.)
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