FEMALE MURDER SUSPECTS ENTER PLEAS

 

 

TWO YOUNG WOMEN ACCUSED OF STABBING A MAN TO DEATH ENTER THEIR PLEAS IN COURT TUESDAY. 18 YEAR OLD JENNIFER MCKEE AND 20 YEAR OLD ASHLEE GURULE BOTH PLEADED NOT GUILTY. THEY TWO ARE CHARGED WITH REPEATEDLY STABBING MAURICE GONZALES AFTER OFFERING HIM SEX AND PLOTTING TO STEAL HIS CAR. POLICE SAY THEY THEN LED OFFICERS ON A HIGH SPEED CHASE IN GONZALES CAR FROM ALBUQUERQUE TO BELEN, WHERE THEY WERE ARRESTED.

 

INVESTIGATORS SAY IT WAS GURULE WHO ALLEGEDLY STABBED GONZALES. MCKEE'S LAWYER SAYS HIS CLIENT PLAYED A LESSER ROLE IN THE PLOT.

 

A 16 YEAR OLD GIRL WHO TOLD POLICE SHE KNOW ABOUT THE PLOT BUT DROPPED OUT IS STILL IN CUSTODY.