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 DENVER -- The teenager accused of killing a 7-year-old boy and hiding his body will be charged as an adult, the Denver District Attorney's Office said Monday. 
 
 The girl’s identity will not be released because she is a juvenile, but the Denver Police Department said the victim was her nephew. 
 
 Police said the 16-year-old girl intentionally killed Jordan Vong, then wrapped his body in a blanket and hid him in a portable closet in her basement bedroom. 
 
 According to a probable cause statement, the suspect lived in the basement of the victim's home in the Montbello neighborhood. 
 
 On the day Vong died, Aug. 6, the statement said the teen was upset after having a fight with her girlfriend. About 12:43 p.m., the child came downstairs and asked her to play video games with him. 
 
 The teen told police that she instructed the child to go upstairs but instead he went to sit on her bed, upsetting her. She said she pushed the 7-year-old off the bed and he hit his face on the floor. 
 
 When the boy began to cry, the child's aunt said she placed her hand over his mouth and plugged his nose, holding down the struggling child until he stopped moving. 
 
 The 16-year-old told police she put the body under her bed before wrapping him in a blanket and placing him in one of the two portable closets in her room. 
 
 Vong was reported missing about 4:30 p.m. from the 4900 block of Fairplay Street near Chambers Road and Bolling Drive. 
 
 Police combed through neighborhoods. Hundreds of posters were put up and officers searched a 20-block radius around the home. The FBI was also called in. 
 
 The next night, police revealed Jordan’s body was found. The 16-year-old was arrested the next morning. 
 
 "It was intentionally concealed, and it took some time to find it," said Joe Montoya, division chief of investigations. 
 
 The teen "didn't tell any of her family what she had done to Jordan because she was afraid," according to the statement. ||||| After a 16-year-old girl killed her 7-year-old nephew, she wrapped his body in a blanket and stored it in a portable closet in her basement bedroom in the family’s Montbello home, according to court documents released Monday. 
 
 The teenage girl will be charged as an adult in Jordan Vong’s death. 
 
 The Denver District Attorney’s Office said Monday that the girl, who was not immediately identified by name, is being charged on suspicion of murder in the first-degree after deliberation and child abuse resulting in death. 
 
 Jordan Vong was reported missing the afternoon of Aug. 6, sparking an extensive search by police and neighbors. 
 
 Two days later, after police obtained a search warrant for the house in the 4900 block of Fairplay Street, a Denver police detective found Jordan’s body in the closet. The coroner’s office was called to the home and the boy was pronounced dead at the scene. 
 
 On Monday, the coroner’s office ruled his death a homicide, but the cause of death has not been determined. 
 
 According to a probable cause statement, the teenage girl was in her basement bedroom on Aug. 6, upset about an earlier argument with a girlfriend. Jordan went to her room and asked if she wanted to play video games. 
 
 “She told Jordan she didn’t want to play with him and told him to go upstairs,” the court document said. 
 
 Jordan lay down on her bed. He refused to leave the room. Then, according to the document, the girl pushed him off the bed, causing him to strike his face on the floor. 
 
 “Jordan began to cry,” the statement said. “She placed her hand over Jordan’s mouth and plugged his nose as Jordan began to struggle for a few minutes.” 
 
 Jordan stopped moving and she slid his body under her bed. The suspect later took the body from under the bed, wrapped it in a blanket, and placed it in one of two portable closets in her room, the document said. 
 
 “She didn’t tell any of her family what she had done to Jordan because she was afraid,” the statement said. “Nor did she tell any of her family where she had hid Jordan.” 
 
 When a search warrant was executed at the home on Wednesday, a detective found the body at 8:46 p.m., according to the court document. 
 
 Paramedics with Denver Health Medical Center at the home on Wednesday said in the statement that Jordan’s body had a towel and comforter wrapped around his head and “biological matter” and blood around his nose. An unknown imprint was on his chest. 
 
 The defendant’s first appearance in district court has not yet been scheduled. ||||| SMITHFIELD — Propped up in her hospital bed, 14-year-old Deserae Turner can barely be seen, a tiny figure lost in pillows, blankets and tubes. 
 
 Her long curly hair has been cut off, and medical devices in the room interrupt regularly as Smithfield police detective Brandon Muir asks her if she remembers what happened before she woke up in Primary Children's Hospital. 
 
 In police video shown in court Tuesday of her March 10 interview, Deserae's voice could barely be heard. She remembered that almost a month before, on Feb. 16, she had gone to meet her 16-year-old friend at a canal where they had hung out before near Smithfield's Sky View High School. 
 
 He had asked her to come, she told the officer, the trail was muddy, and the boy's friend had unexpectedly been there, too. 
 
 Muir testified that following that interview, Deserae had been told she could ask the officer questions. She had already been told she had been shot, but now, Muir said, "She asked who did it, and why." 
 
 After consulting the young girl's therapist, it was decided Deserae's father would tell her that her friend, the suspected triggerman, and the boy he was with that day, are both accused of attempting to kill her. 
 
 "She said she was surprised, she had a look of shock on her face," Muir testified. 
 
 Watching her eyes, the detective said he could tell Deserae "was trying to sort out how that even happened." 
 
 Muir also described Deserae's injuries, including presenting a scan that shows just where the bullet still remains today, pressed up against the front of the girl's skull. 
 
 "She could possibly have that bullet in her head for the rest of her life," Muir explained. 
 
 The narrative surrounding Deserae's shooting unfolded in a preliminary hearing for the alleged teen gunman Tuesday, where prosecutors presented evidence to show there was probable cause a crime was committed. First District Juvenile Judge Angela Fonnesbeck bound the case over for trial. 
 
 An additional evidentiary hearing will be held May 8-9 to determine whether the case will remain in juvenile court or move to district court where the teen would face the charges against him as an adult. 
 
 The other 16-year-old charged with shooting Deserae faces his own preliminary hearing Wednesday. 
 
 The two teens are both accused of attempted aggravated murder, a first-degree felony; aggravated robbery, a first-degree felony; and four counts of obstruction of justice, a second-degree felony. 
 
 In Tuesday's hearing, prosecutors said the boys had put together a premeditated murder plot targeting Deserae. Together they lured the younger girl to join them after school under the guise of buying a knife, then shot her once in the back of the head at close range, stole her belongings and left her in a dry section of the dirty canal. 
 
 Prosecutors said the teens planned to kill Deserae by slitting her throat or, as a backup, by shooting her in the head. 
 
 The Deseret News has chosen not to identify the teens at this time. 
 
 According to a statement the alleged gunman gave to police, the boys were playing video games one day when one said he would like to "get rid of" 14-year-old Deserae, who was sending him messages on social media. 
 
 "I just didn't want anything to do with Snapchatting her anymore," the boy wrote in his statement, which was read aloud by police. 
 
 His friend replied, "Well you've got a 6-inch blade, why don't you do it yourself?" according to the statement. 
 
 At first the alleged gunman said he thought this was just another "crude joke" by his friend, but the boys continued to talk, and a plan formed. 
 
 The teen said he suggested using his brother's gun, which he knew was hidden under a mattress, but "he said it would be quieter to use knives and made up the plan that we're going to slit her throat using my two knives," the boy said in his statement. 
 
 The teen also wrote that his friend had instructed him that, once they had Deserae in place, he gave him a certain look indicating it was time to kill her. 
 
 "He gave me the look and I did it," the teen wrote. 
 
 Testimony from Cache County sheriff's deputy Brian Groves, who interviewed the alleged teen gunman, lasted much of the morning Tuesday. 
 
 The boy insisted early on he knew Deserae but hadn't talked to her for weeks or months, Groves said. The boy also didn't know his own cellphone number, and he didn't want officers looking at his phone because he "liked his privacy," the deputy said. The teen also told him he regularly deleted his text conversations. 
 
 From the beginning of the conversation, Groves said he noticed the way the boy gripped his hands tightly together, how his lip occasionally quivered and how it seemed his mouth was dry. 
 
 "I found this to be very suspicious behavior. He seemed to be under a lot of stress," he said. 
 
 Groves then told the teen that Deserae, who was actually in critical condition at the hospital, had died. 
 
 "His body jerked. Immediately he started to cry," he said. 
 
 Groves explained later in his testimony he had used the words "dead" and "canal" as "trigger words," then carefully observed the teen's body language. 
 
 The teen's attorney, David Perry, described the tactic as "interrogation." 
 
 From there, the teen's involvement and eventually the alleged participation of his friend continued to unfold in a series of interviews over the next several days, according to Groves' testimony. 
 
 The teen told Groves he and his friend had been playing video games when a plan to kill Deserae began. He also said he had met the girl at the canal about a week earlier intending to slit her throat but didn't go through with it. When they met the second time, they brought the gun the boy had taken from under his brother's mattress as "back up," the deputy said. 
 
 The teen told Groves that, in order to get Deserae to turn her back to him and head back down the trail, he told her he would give her a ride home. 
 
 "He said it was the most merciful way, that was the statement he gave me," Groves testified. 
 
 Groves said the boy didn't believe Deserae ever saw the gun. 
 
 Groves said he asked the boy if there was something specific about Deserae that had prompted him to shoot her, if he was angry for any reason, and the boy replied no. The deputy also asked what would have happened in the same situation with another girl, and the boy indicated the outcome would have been the same. 
 
 The boy also indicated that, without his friend there, he may not have had the courage to go through with the shooting, Groves testified. 
 
 According to police, the boys took Deserae's backpack off her after shooting her, breaking her cellphone and iPod with their hands, tossed her backpack in a trash bin and kept the $55 they'd found in her bag. When Groves asked why they took the backpack, the boy answered with one word: greed. 
 
 Groves said that as he was interviewing the alleged gunman, his friend was being interviewed in another room. He informed the teen that his friend had been solely responsible for the shooting, and that he'd told him afterward "He was glad he did it." 
 
 The alleged gunman's response to that was emotional, Groves said. In his written statement later, the teen said that his friend was by his side that day, was fully aware of the planning and where he had his weapons, and made no effort to run away afterward. 
 
 "He didn't show any sign of fear, regret, remorse. There was nothing," the boy wrote in his statement. 
 
 The teen also told police his friend had asked to keep the single shell casing as a "memento," Groves testified. Police found the casing set up in the windowsill of the other boy's bedroom. 
 
 Perry — who did not present an opening or closing statement Tuesday — pressed Groves on cross examination about which of the two teens had been more cooperative with police. Groves replied that Perry's client, the alleged gunman, had been the more cooperative of the two and had shown remorse during his interviews with police.
– A 16-year-old girl killed her 7-year-old nephew, then concealed the secret and his body as a community frantically searched, according to police. Denver's Jordan Vong was reported missing around 4:30pm on Aug. 6, hours after his mother had last seen him, prompting officers to search a 20-block radius, reports KDVR. The boy's body was discovered in one of two portable closets in the basement bedroom of his 16-year-old aunt during a second search two days later, the Denver Post reports. Police say the teen admitted to pushing the boy off her bed, causing him to hit his head and start crying, then using her hands to cover his mouth and nose until he stopped moving, reports KUSA. Authorities say the teen was upset because Jordan came into her room and asked to play video games, and he wouldn't leave when she refused. The teen, to be charged as an adult with murder and child abuse, first hid the body under her bed before wrapping it in a blanket and moving it to the closet, authorities say.