NEW CASTLE, Pa. -- A judge has scheduled a hearing Dec. 10 to determine whether a 12-year-old western Pennsylvania boy will be tried as an adult or as a juvenile on charges he killed his father's pregnant fiancee.

For now, Jordan Brown, of New Galilee, is charged as an adult in Lawrence County Common Pleas Court with February's fatal shooting of 26-year-old Kenzie Marie Houk and her unborn son as Houk lay in bed.

If convicted as an adult, Brown faces life in prison without parole. If the case is moved to juvenile court, any punishment would end when he turns 21.

District Attorney John Bongivengo opposes a defense motion to move the case to juvenile court.

Brown is incarcerated at the Edmund L. Thomas Adolescent Detention Center in Erie.