A 16-year-old Riverside High School student stands to be indicted by a Logan County Grand Jury and charged as an adult for the August murder of his mother at their DeGraff home.
Brycen Caudill of DeGraff remains lodged in the Logan County Juvenile Detention Center following a Thursday hearing before Logan County Family Court Judge Daniel Bratka.
Defense counsel stipulated to Logan County’s Prosecutors’ assertion that probable cause exists to charge the juvenile defendant with murder. Formal discussion between the judge and attorneys also revealed Thursday that the defendant is expected to plead guilty to that charge of murder in adult court.
Brycen was arrested Aug. 16 for the alleged murder of his 36-year-old mother Crystal Caudill at their home at 207 E. Main St. residence.
Law enforcement reports indicate the teen attacked and stabbed his mother multiple times with a wooden baseball bat and knife in her bedroom before school, around 7 a.m.
Caudill was able to run away to a nearby property, and it was a neighbor that contacted authorities. She was pronounced dead at Mary Rutan Hospital.
Brycen fled the scene, and traveled more than 10 miles on foot to a residence at 10029 Trestle Road, St. Paris, where he eventually turned himself in. Deputies from the Champaign County Sheriff’s Office received a 911 call, and the teen was taken into custody at that location.
He’s been lodged in the Logan County Juvenile Detention Center since his arrest.