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ALBUQUERQUE (AP) — A teenager was charged Friday with killing a nun after allegedly breaking into her trailer home on the Navajo tribal reservation in search of cash or valuable items.
Federal authorities accused Reehahlio Carroll, 18, of Navajo, of "unlawful killing of a human being with malice aforethought" in the death of 64-year-old Sister Marguerite Bartz, who served at St. Berard Catholic Church in Navajo.
Carroll was expected to appear in federal court on Monday, said Norm Cairns, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office. Cairns said the charge against Carroll might make him eligible for the death penalty, but the Navajo Nation would first have to allow the U.S. government to pursue it.
