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Teens Charged With Killing Woman Who Told Them to 'Get a Job'

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Teens Charged With Killing Woman Who Told Them to 'Get a Job'

December 11, 2012 Updated Dec 11, 2012 at 3:29 PM PDT

Three teens charged in the fatal shooting of a western Pennsylvania woman had targeted her, police say, after she told them to “get a job” when they tried to bum a cigarette from her boyfriend.

Beaver Falls police have charged two 14-year-olds and one 13-year-old with criminal homicide and other charges in Saturday’s shooting of Kayla Peterson, 22. She was shot at about 3:30 p.m. that day and died at a Pittsburgh hospital two hours later.

The attorney of one of the teens said he was just “in the wrong place at the wrong time” when Velasquez. That teen was identified as the gunman by police and Peterson’s boyfriend.

Beaver Falls Police Chief Charles Jones says officers are still searching for the other two teen suspects.

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