A judge set bail at $200,000 for a 17-year-old girl accused of strangling a woman to death early Monday morning at the woman’s Minnehaha home .

Kharma J. Douglas of Vancouver appeared Monday in Clark County Superior Court on an allegation of second-degree murder. Despite facing the allegation in adult court, Douglas is being held in juvenile detention.

She is scheduled to be arraigned Friday.

Court records identify the victim as 44-year-old Chantal L. Trotter. The Clark County Medical Examiner’s Office will release Trotter’s cause and manner of death.

According to an affidavit of probable cause, Trotter was having a “girl’s night” with two of her friends at her home in the 4200 block of Northeast 54th Avenue. Trotter needed cleaning supplies and called her son’s girlfriend to bring h

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