ST. JAMES, Mo. (AP) – Two people who escaped from a central Missouri behavioral
health facility are charged with killing a teenager who escaped with them.
Phelps County authorities say 18-year-old Enoch Phillips and 17-year-old Cody
Armistead were charged Monday with first-degree murder. The Springfield
News-Leader reports the two are accused of strangling a 15-year-old who ran away
with them from a Great Circle facility in St. James. Court documents say the
three ran away from the center Wednesday but only Phillips and Armistead
returned on Thursday. Armistead reportedly took officials to a field in St.
James where the victim’s body was found.
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