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With her grandson's terrified screams filling a suburban Detroit courtroom, 74-year-old Sandra Layne sat in a jail jumpsuit with tears in her eyes Monday as she listened to the teen telling a 911 operator he'd been shot by his grandmother.
Tapes of the emergency call were played publicly for the first time at the hearing, during which Layne was ordered to stand trial on murder and weapons charges in the death of 17-year-old Jonathan Hoffman.
Layne, petite with graying red hair, was acting in self-defense, her attorney later told reporters.
"I've just been shot. My grandma shot me. I'm going to die. Help," Jonathan yelled into a cellphone on May 18 from the condo he shared with his grandparents in West Bloomfield Township, an upscale suburb.
But it was what Layne told police when they arrived that convinced Judge Kimberly Small to order the frail grandmother to stand trial.
Officer Derrick Kassab testified that Layne walked out of her home with her hands up and "screamed to me, 'I murdered my grandson.'"
When Layne walked through the condo's front door, "she had blood on her hands, had some blood on her clothing," Officer David Curry said.
He testified that there was also blood on a Glock 9mm semiautomatic handgun that officers found just inside the door.
Nine spent cartridge cases also were found in the house.
Blood was found on walls and the floor throughout the home.
Officers found Jonathan lying face down in an upstairs loft bedroom, his arms at his sides on the floor near a sofa.
An autopsy revealed that Jonathan was shot three times in the chest, once in the abdomen and once in his left arm.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/officer-mich-woman-frantic-grandsons-death-16696709#.T_Lc7tn0euk
Tapes of the emergency call were played publicly for the first time at the hearing, during which Layne was ordered to stand trial on murder and weapons charges in the death of 17-year-old Jonathan Hoffman.
Layne, petite with graying red hair, was acting in self-defense, her attorney later told reporters.
"I've just been shot. My grandma shot me. I'm going to die. Help," Jonathan yelled into a cellphone on May 18 from the condo he shared with his grandparents in West Bloomfield Township, an upscale suburb.
But it was what Layne told police when they arrived that convinced Judge Kimberly Small to order the frail grandmother to stand trial.
Officer Derrick Kassab testified that Layne walked out of her home with her hands up and "screamed to me, 'I murdered my grandson.'"
When Layne walked through the condo's front door, "she had blood on her hands, had some blood on her clothing," Officer David Curry said.
He testified that there was also blood on a Glock 9mm semiautomatic handgun that officers found just inside the door.
Nine spent cartridge cases also were found in the house.
Blood was found on walls and the floor throughout the home.
Officers found Jonathan lying face down in an upstairs loft bedroom, his arms at his sides on the floor near a sofa.
An autopsy revealed that Jonathan was shot three times in the chest, once in the abdomen and once in his left arm.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/officer-mich-woman-frantic-grandsons-death-16696709#.T_Lc7tn0euk