Teen pleads guilty in girlfriend's murder [View all]

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ST. PAUL, Minn. - A Maplewood man accused of violently stabbing his teenaged girlfriend to death has waived his right to an adult certification hearing, choosing instead to plead guilty to second degree murder.

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Police responded to a Maplewood park just before 4:40 a.m. on February 23, 2013, after a call from Mitchell's mother. She told them about a girl found beaten and unresponsive on a nearby trail. After they arrived, Mitchell himself led investigators to a spot in Hillside Park in Maplewood where Hurd was lying approximately 15 feet from the path.

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Mitchell told police that he later went looking for her, returning a short time later in hysterics with blood on his hands, yelling for his mother to call 911.

But investigators soon learned that the defendant was also seen at a party the night before playing with a knife. A witness told police that Hurd had planned on ending the relationship between herself and the defendant and traveling to Texas alone. The witness said that Mitchell was "clingy" in his relationship with Hurd, and had threatened to commit suicide when she previously attempted to break up with him.

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http://www.kare11.com/news/article/1025322/391/Teen-pleads-guilty-in-girlfriends-murder