Teen remains held in fatal Willmar stabbing
by The Associated Press
 
WILLMAR, Minn. -- A study will be conducted to determine if a 17-year-old boy should be tried as an adult in the stabbing death of a Willmar college football player.

Judge Jon Stafsholt ordered that the certification study be completed within 30 days, and that the boy remain at Prairie Lakes Youth Programs.

The boy made his first appearance Tuesday on a second-degree murder charge in Kandiyohi County District Court.

According to the petition, the teen was in a group that went to an apartment complex in Willmar early Sunday. There the boy had an altercation with 21-year-old Adam Milton, during which racial slurs were exchanged. Both the teen and Milton are African-American.

Witnesses say punches were thrown and the boy ran from Milton, who caught him. During a scuffle the Ridgewater College football player was stabbed twice in the chest. He died at a Willmar hospital.