Denver DA: Girl, 16, faces adult charges

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.