WAMPUM, Pa. -- The attorney for an 11-year-old murder suspect said his goal is to get his client out of jail on bond after the boy spent the last three nights there.

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Jordan Brown, of Wampum, was jailed after being charged with using his own 20-gauge shotgun to kill 26-year-old Kenzie Marie Houk.

Houk was eight months pregnant with Brown's father's child, and also had two daughters, 7 and 4, who lived with the Browns in the rural home where, authorities said, Houk was slain at about 8 a.m. Friday as she lay in bed.

"He's not doing well. He's a typical 11-year-old kid," said Brown's attorney, Dennis Elisco. "My goal today is to get him bonded out."

Elisco also hopes to get the fifth-grader's school to send him assignments in jail.

On Sunday, Charles Adamo, Lawrence County Jail warden, said he wants the 11-year-old boy moved out of his jail. He said his 300-inmate jail cannot offer proper long-term care for Brown.

"I think for his safety and for our liability it will probably be safe for him, to be best to have him housed in a juvenile setting," said Adamo.

"I don't think anybody wants him there," Elisco said. He said jail officials can't even find clothes to fit the 4-foot-8 boy.

"They put a shirt on him, he's swimming in it, and his pants are cuffed up about 10 times," Elisco said.

In addition to finding the boy's 20-gauge shotgun, police found a blue blanket with a hole in it, and burn marks around the hole's edges.

Police said Brown shot Houk and then got onto a school bus with Houk's oldest daughter. He was picked up from school several hours later after some tree trimmers called 911 when Houk's youngest daughter told them she thought her mother was dead.

Brown has been in the jail about 45 miles northwest of Pittsburgh since early Saturday, Adamo said. He's being held in one of four 10-by-8-foot cells in the jail's booking area, where officials check on him every 15 minutes.

Brown gets the same food as the other inmates but cannot receive visitors, except for his attorney, because doing so would require him to mingle with adult inmates, Adamo said. Even something as simple as letting the boy shower would require locking down an entire cellblock, most of which hold up to 63 inmates, Adamo said.

Brown's cell has a sink, toilet and bunk, and the inside can be seen from a desk where a booking clerk sits, Adamo said.

Brown is charged as an adult because Pennsylvania law allows prosecutors to charge children as young as 10 with criminal homicide.

For now, the boy faces a preliminary hearing on Thursday to determine if he'll stand trial. If a judge agrees, the case might belong in juvenile court. A dual-purpose hearing will determine if there's evidence to support the charges, but Elisco will also have to prove the boy can be rehabilitated through a juvenile system that has jurisdiction only until the boy turns 21.

Elisco said the boy has not confessed to the shooting, and he doesn't believe the physical evidence will support the police contention that the boy killed Houk, execution-style, with one shot to the back of her head.

Police and District Attorney John Bongivengo haven't discussed a motive, and Elisco used an expletive to dismiss claims by Houk's family that the boy might have been jealous of Houk.

"I think it's all bull ... there's no animosity," Elisco said.

Police said Houk's 4-year-old daughter left the house to tell a man trimming trees that something was wrong with her mother on Friday morning.

"We come out to load firewood. We had a little girl that come to the door and told us that her mommy had passed away and I called 911... I stayed there until the state police came in and they found her," said Steve Cable.

Jack Houk, the dead woman’s father, said, "The thing that hurts me the worst is that I can't remember the last time I told her I love her. That'll hurt me the rest of my life."

Houk was due to deliver her baby in just two weeks.

A fund has been set up to help support the daughters of Kenzie Houk. Anyone wishing to contribute is asked to contact regarding the Kenzie Houk Family Fund at Huntington National Bank, 1144 Butler Avenue, New Castle, Pa. 16101.

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