Oneida County prosecutors filed criminal charges this morning against a 17-year-old girl accused of killing her mother and step-father, and then locking her three young sisters in a bedroom before escaping with her boyfriend. Officials first said they would file charges against Ashlee Martinson after she's extradited from Indiana, where she was arrested. But the D-A's office went ahead and processed the complaint, ahead of an extradition hearing that's now set for 2:30 this afternoon in Boone County, near Indianapolis. Martinson faces two counts of first-degree intentional homicide and three counts of false imprisonment, in the deaths of Thomas and Jennifer Ayres on Sunday at their home south of Three Lakes. Prosecutors quoted the woman's nine-year-old daughter as saying she heard gunshots from upstairs, just before her mother ran up there and got into a fight with Ashlee. Officials have not said how the couple died -- and a motive was not disclosed, either.
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