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Trial Delayed For Northview Student Accused In Sister’s Murder
November 3, 2011
Trial was set to begin next week for a former Northview High School student accused in the August fatal shooting her adoptive sister, but Wednesday a judged postponed the teen’s date with a jury until January.
Elena Janelle Rendell, 17, remains 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.
At the request of the State Attorney’s Office, Judge Nickolas Geeker on Wednesday set Rendell’s jury trial to begin January 3, 2012.
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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5 Responses to “Trial Delayed For Northview Student Accused In Sister’s Murder”
Its so sad, she needs to pay for what she did, she needs to be tried has an adult and treated as one to, she needed help a long time ago
Everyone is absolutely right…..She definitely had some anger issues…At 17 she should be tried as an adult….She is old enough to know right from wrong and the outcome of what happens when u shoot someone….In hindsight, I bet the father wishes he had hid that gun….Either the parents cannot afford bail or they , no matter much they love her, sees that she needs to suffer the consquences and pay for her crime. Because obviously they have not bailed her out of jail……
FLOMATON CITIZEN JUST DOESNT UNDERSTAND WHY THE PEOPLE IN THIS WORLD ARE LOSING THEIR HUMANITY AND MORALS.
Yes your right there is more to it than that but don’t worry she will go to jail.
This is a lack of concern in the making from the get go. People should
have stepped in a long time ago and helped this young woman. Now she has
made her bed and she will lie in it. Some people become a product of what
has been done to them by other people, and just can’t rise up out of it.
There is no exuse for killing someone except in their mind to apease their
anger or whatever..The end result is another child is dead and another goes to jail.
There has be a better way for all of us to live.
AMEN WALNUTHILL !!
I BET THEY’RE READY TO LET HER GET OFF. NO EXCUSE TO PULL A GUN OVER A CELL PHONE AT ALL.SHE HAD PROBLEMS IS WHAT SOME WOULD SAY,SO WHY IF THEY KNEW SHE HAD PROBLEMS THEY DIDNT GET HER HELP????????? PEOPLE WILL SAY ANYTHING WHEN IT COMES TO SITUATIONS LIKE THIS.SHE KNEW RIGHT FROM WRONG AND SHES OLD ENOUGH SO LET HER PAY FOR WHAT SHE DID.TOOK THE LIFE OF (HER SISTER OVER A CELL PHONE) ITS MORE TO IT THAN THAT:)