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		</div><h6 class="postid-14699579"><span style="color: #3d3232;"><strong>Sylvia McGee, 14, was shot to death in March, a block from her home in Canton, Ohio by a 13-year-old boy</strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="postid-14699579"><span style="color: #3d3232;"><strong>The killer, now 14, pled guilty to killing the teen girl because he falsely thought she was pregnant, but the autopsy revealed she was not pregnant </strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="postid-14699579"><span style="color: #3d3232;"><strong>The victim was not the boy’s girlfriend either</strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="postid-14699579"><span style="color: #3d3232;"><strong>Teen defendant was not tried as an adult because he was 13 at the time of the crime. </strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="postid-14699579"><span style="color: #3d3232;"><strong>He pled down aggravated murder charge down to murder</strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="postid-14699579"><span style="color: #3d3232;"><strong>Will remain incarcerated in a youth prison until he is 21 and will undergo a psych evaluation. </strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="postid-14699579"><span style="color: #3d3232;"><strong>If he is deemed a serious youthful offender, he would be transferred to adult prison, serving 18 years to life </strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="postid-14699579"><span style="color: #3d3232;"><strong>Sentencing is scheduled for January</strong></span></h6>
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<h6><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-336544" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Sylvia-McGhee-1.jpg" alt="Sylvia McGhee 1.JPG" width="643" height="420" /><strong>Victim:</strong> <strong>Sylvia McGee, 14, was shot to death in March close to her home in Canton, Ohio by a 13-year-old boy who thought she was pregnant with his child</strong></h6>
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<p>An Ohio teenager killed a 14-year-old girl after she told him she thought she was pregnant, because he reportedly feared he was the father.<br />
In March, 14-year-old Sylvia McGee was fatally shot by a 13-year-old boy.<br />
Isiah Lynch now 14, admitted in juvenile court to murdering 14-year-old Sylvia McGee, who was shot in the head on March 30, just a block from her home in Canton, Ohio.<br />
Stark County Prosecutor John Ferrero said the evidence all suggested the girl was shot execution-style.<br />
On Wednesday, in juvenile court, the teen boy pled true— the equivalent of guilty— to murder.<br />
Assistant Prosecutor Michelle Cordova revealed the perpetrator had told police he and McGee believed she was pregnant with his child.<br />
“That is what I believe got this whole thing started,” Cordova said on Wednesday, according to the <a class="external-link" title="(opens new window)" href="https://www.cantonrep.com/news/20191113/update-false-pregnancy-rumor-led-to-sylvia-mcgeersquos-murder" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" aria-describedby="external-disclaimer">Canton Repository</a>.<br />
“There was no evidence of any other reason for this.”<br />
But McGee was not actually pregnant, Cordova says, citing an autopsy.</p>
<h6><img class="alignnone wp-image-336552" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Isiah-Lynch-1.jpg" alt="Isiah Lynch 1" width="960" height="854" /><strong>The defendant</strong> <strong>Isiah Lynch, now </strong><strong>14, from Canton, Ohio, admitted in juvenile court on Wednesday to murdering 14-year-old Sylvia McGee, who was shot in the head in March</strong></h6>
<p>A co-defendant, Michael J. Boykins, also 14, recently pled true to tampering with evidence, reduced from the more serious charge of complicity to aggravated murder .<br />
Boykins also pleaded true to a count of obstructing justice.<br />
Boykins will serve a minimum of one year in youth prison but could remain there until age 21 depending on his behavior, Cordova said. He is scheduled to be sentenced December 2.<br />
Cordova said Boykins had been more truthful than Lynch when interviewed by police.<br />
He also agreed to testify against Lynch if the case went to trial.<br />
Lynch, Boykins and McGee had known each other since attending elementary school in Canton, Cordova said, and had reconnected following their middle school years.<br />
McGee was killed less than a block from her home between midnight and 4 a.m., according to the prosecutor’s office. Lynch, Boykins and McGee had spent time together in the early morning hours of March 30.<br />
Investigators said Lynch shot McGee with a .38-caliber, semi-automatic handgun, Cordova said. Boykins witnessed the slaying but was not armed and did not fire any shots, she said.<br />
The murder weapon was not recovered.</p>
<h6><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-336551" src="https://i2.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Carlina-Hanley-1.jpg?ssl=1&;w=1416" alt="Carlina Hanley 1.JPG" width="708" height="739" /><strong>“It’s still not closure”: Carlina Hanley, McGee’s great aunt weeps in court on Wednesday</strong></h6>
<p>“It’s still not closure,” Carlina Hanley, McGee’s great aunt, told the <em>Repository </em>after the hearing.<br />
“[Lynch] should have just admitted it from the beginning.<br />
“She didn’t deserve that…She wasn’t that type of a kid. She was upbeat and funny. I just can’t believe that he did that.”<br />
<span style="color: var(--color-text);">McGee was in the eighth </span>grade at the Compton Learning Center’s Connections Program, <span style="color: var(--color-text);"><a class="external-link" title="(opens new window)" href="https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/local/canton/vigil-held-for-canton-teen-who-was-shot-and-killed/95-d61f9453-26d5-4101-a2e5-202643e363d8" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" aria-describedby="external-disclaimer">wkyc</a> reports.<br />
</span>“[She] was always funny, smiling, nothing ever dragged her down, not one thing,” the victim’s friend Tabitha McCarthy told the station after her death.<br />
Before her death, McGee hoped to become a beautician.<br />
“She talked about owning her own business,” Hanley said, according to the <a class="external-link" title="(opens new window)" href="https://www.cantonrep.com/news/20191113/update-false-pregnancy-rumor-led-to-sylvia-mcgeersquos-murder" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" aria-describedby="external-disclaimer">Repository</a><em>.</em><br />
“She talked about moving to New York and taking her maternal grandmother with her.”<br />
“I knew that she could always excel in life, in anything that she chose to do,” she continued.<br />
“She wanted everybody to get along. She wanted everybody to just be friends — that’s just the type of personality she had.”<br />
The teenage defendant was not tried as an adult because he was 13 at the time of the crime.<br />
The juvenile defendant accepted a plea agreement that brought an aggravated murder charge down to murder.<br />
As part of the plea, the teen will remain behind bars in a youth prison until he is 21 and will undergo a psych evaluation. If he is deemed a serious youthful offender, Cordova says the boy would face time in adult prison of 18 years to life.<br />
He will be sentenced in January.</p>
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Ohio boy, 13, who executed teen girl because he feared he got her pregnant pleads guilty to murder, in juvenile court
