case will remain at a juvenile detention facility until his next court hearing, after a judge declined to release him to family on Wednesday. with armed carjacking in connection to an alleged carjacking that happened Saturday night that left a 13-year-old boy dead. He made his first court appearance on Wednesday.
Investigators said the marshal was sitting in his car talking on the phone just before his shift started, when two kids approached him from behind and demanded he get out of the car. In court Wednesday, prosecutors said the two boys both put their hands on their waistbands, and said Toney jumped into the passenger seat while the 12-year-old pulled the driver's door open and said,"Get the out, you know what this is.
In court, the mother listened in tears as her son's attorney described all she had done to avoid getting to that point with her son. He was described as having"anger issues" since he was 5-years-old, repeatedly broke curfew and would disappear for days at a time, and was believed to"know where to get a gun." His defense attorney's said this was the child's first offense, and that his mother had recently gotten him counseling services.