15-year-old indicted on murder, kidnapping and robbery charges

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by Tim Troglen

Reporter

Maple Heights -- The Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court indicted a 15-year-old boy April 24 after he was charged with aggravated murder, murder and aggravated robbery in the December shooting death of a gas station attendant.

A juvenile court judge ruled April 8 that Dakota Flagg would be tried as an adult.

Flagg was also indicted April 24 on eight counts of aggravated robbery, four counts of kidnapping and one count of carrying a concealed weapon in a separate armed robbery case.

Flagg was in the Cuyahoga County Juvenile Detention Center on a $1 million bond and could not be reached for comment. According to court records, no attorney has been assigned to his case yet.

Maple Heights Police Detective Al Henderson said Flagg was charged with the shooting Jan. 23 while being held in the detention center.

Police allege Flagg was one of two people who robbed the Family Dollar Store, 17000 Broadway Ave., Maple Heights, the afternoon of Dec. 28.

Responding officers saw the alleged robbers and chased them on foot before catching one of them, who police later identified as Flagg, Henderson said.

The other suspect has not been caught, Henderson said.

Police say Flagg was carrying a semi-automatic handgun. They said forensic tests determined the gun was the same weapon used in a gas station robbery that ended in the shooting of 36-year-old Mohammed Khan, Henderson said.

According to Ryan Miday, public information officer with the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor's Office, Flagg was bound over to the county common pleas court after a hearing in juvenile court April 8 in which a judge decided Flagg should be tried as an adult.

According to Ohio law, Flagg, as an adult, could face life in prison.

However, Miday said under Ohio law, juveniles cannot be given the death penalty, even if they are tried as adults.

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