A teenage boy who's been charged with second-degree murder in connection with the shooting of an East Wenatchee man will be tried as an adult.

The Douglas County Prosecutor's Office filed the charge, along with another for first-degree assault, against 16-year-old Juan Valdovinos-Vazquez in Douglas County Superior Court on Monday.

Valdovinos-Vazquez is accused of shooting 68-year-old Adnan AbouAmmo to death sometime during the late morning hours of Nov. 12.

AbouAmmo's body was found inside his vehicle with several gunshot wounds alongside U.S. Highway 97 about seven miles south of the Beebe Bridge at just after noon that same day.

Court documents indicate investigators later discovered that AbouAmmo and Valdovinos-Vazquez had exchanged numerous phone calls and text messages in the days

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