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Judge Won’t Lower Rendell’s Bond
September 28, 2011
Judge Nickolas Geeker refused Wednesday afternoon to lower bond for a former Northview High School student accused in the August fatal shooting her adoptive sister.
Elena Janelle Rendell, 17, will remain in the Escambia Jail with bond set at $300,000 for the shooting death of 14-year old Christina Marie Sneary, a former Molino resident. She is charged as an adult with manslaughter by a firearm.
The two girls had recently moved with their mother from Sunset View Lane in Molino to the 7600 block of Kipling Street in the Ferry Pass community.
Rendell told deputies that she began to argue with Sneary over a cell phone. During the argument, Rendell ran into her parent’s bedroom and retrieved her father’s 9 mm handgun from the top of a television shelf that stood about 12-feet high. Rendell then pointed the handgun at her 14-year old sister and fired a single gunshot into the right side of Sneary’s neck. Sneary died a short time later at Sacred Heart Hospital.
For more details about the shooting, click here for an earlier story.
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7 Responses to “Judge Won’t Lower Rendell’s Bond”
The bond is irrelevant here, this young woman is a killer. I pity her circumstance and path, but danger is danger, and this young woman is a threat to others and herself. Let us say a prayer for her and press on.
Billy–”there’s some one in there”. Check the purpose of bond. Then check how many other adults and or 17 year olds have a bond of this amount set for the same crime. I feel sure she could not post even a bond of 25,000, so what is the purpose of 300,000? I hope you could agree that her mom is not going to come up with that amount of money. If I recall correctly there is a 10% fee for the bondsman that is not returned so she is not going any where. Is the county jail truly the best place for her?
In Response to OldMarine
I believe that she had Judge Boles at her arraignment and the bond was lowered then either.
Uh……..shes charged with murder………Hello?………anyone in there?
HAhaha yes judge Boles would have been good..I know those girls love him in drug court chance after chance…
I’m unsure why the judge kept the bond so high. Is she a danger to others or a flight risk? Looking at some of the other cases in the last few months, most did not have this high bond and were not kept in jail. I’m not saying she should or should not be released on a lower bond—just don’t understand.
Her bad luck she didnt get Judge Joel Boles