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Show Illlll ftp':: '. : B1IP1S:P r:i: r ; iiiw 1 ;llCP I ' ' '' ' j i . . ' - s 5 -v , '- ' I - -I ; I - - ;'!-. -v ' ' 'J Edward Bennett, Lehi, flanked by American Fork police officers, walks to 8th Circuit Court for extradition hearing. j Suspect to spend ; 19th birthday in Las Vegas jail - Edward G. Bennett will spend his 19th birthday in the Clark County jail in Las Vegas, Nev. j Bennett, who will turn 19 on March 19, waived extradition March 9 before Orem 8th Circuit Court Judge Robert J. Sumsion and, along with a 16-year old companion from Orem, j was transported to Nevada later the ! same afternoon. "l The juvenile similarly waived I extradition- Tuesday in -Juvenile Court in Provo, according to police. I They entered pleas of not guilty to the charges later in the week in a I Las Vegas courtroom. Both Bennett and the juvenile are suspects in the Feb. 9 slaying of 21-year 21-year old Michelle Moore at a Stop & Go mini-mart in Las Vegas and the wounding of a store patron. They were arrested by American Fork Police on March 7 after in- ri formation was developed by police during a separate investigation, M according to Police Chief John iDurrant. Det. David Hatch, Homicide 2LDetective with the Las Vegas .Metropolitan Police Department, gsaid charges against the young men include first degree murder, attempted at-tempted murder, robbery, and the iise of a deadly weapon in the commission of a crime, j The juvenile will face charges as an adult, he said, because under jNevada law, a suspect over 14 is automatically charged as an adult in h a crime like this. Bennett appeared before Judge Sumsion in the orange prison suit of the Utah County Prison. He was emotionless as he stood beside his lawyer and heard Judge Sumsion question whether he understood the charges against him and the extradition ex-tradition process. Bennett replied he did. The Judge then asked if he was willing to sign - that waiver in open court today, and the youth said he was. "You will be returned to the state of Nevada to answer to these charges," Judge Sumsion then said. Family members and friends were in the courtroom during the procedure. Det. Hatch, during a press conference con-ference March 8, told the media the crime was a high profile crime in Las Vegas because of its nature. The killing of Mrs. Moore received a lot of publicity, he said, because it was "such a senseless crime." He said police feel robbery was an afterthought - that the killers "went shopping for a victim and found one." Police recovered a .45 calibre automatic handgun believed used in the crime from a Provo pawnbroker. Mrs. Moore had been married six months. Originally from Roosevelt, her family resides in Utah. She had only recently moved to Las Vegas, and had worked at the convenience store for two weeks prior to the 10 p.m. shooting. |