Hearing for accused killer, 13, continued

KANSAS CITY, Mo., May 21 (UPI) -- A Kansas City judge rescheduled a hearing on whether a 13-year-old boy should be tried as an adult in the shooting death of his football coach.

Antwuan Taylor is charged with murder and gun possession in the fatal shooting of Charles McElroy, 47, for reasons that remained unclear Wednesday.

Taylor will undergo a psychiatric exam and be back in court on June 30, KMBC-TV, Kansas City, reported Wednesday.

The station said that while some of McElroy's fellow coaches can't fathom why Taylor would kill their colleague, the victim's family insists that the eighth-grader be tried as an adult.

"It's sad that he is a child, but he is a child that has put himself in a grown man's situation," said LaShasta Payne, McElroy's daughter. "There's someone behind this baby that's an adult that knows what went on."