of 15-year-old girl charged with 2 murders

New York City Girl, 15, Charged With Two Homicides: 15-year-old Sharrell Butler has been charged as an adult for the killing of two men over three days including one whose dismembered remains were found in a garbage bag.


From left: Sharell Butler, John Hopkins Drago and Christopher Umpierrie

Over the weekend, Butler, who has been charged as an adult, pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder in the deaths of 24-year-old Christopher Umpierre on Dec. 19 and 22-year-old John Hopkins-Drago on Dec. 21. She was being held without bail Monday. Police say Sharrell Butler and others stabbed Hopkins-Drago at an apartment in the Bronx, perhaps as many as 40 times. A superintendent found the dismembered body stuffed in a garbage can outside a building the same day he was killed.

Butler, whose nickname is Lady Red and an alleged gang member, is charged with second-degree murder. Butler's lawyer, Xavier Donaldson, who denied allegations that Butler was involved in the Bloods gang said,

She's a 15-year-old girl. She's scared. She's just a kid.

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[via Sandra Rose]