Teen acquitted in Chaska beating death
A jury has acquitted a Chaska teenager accused of beating his mother's boyfriend to death last year.
Carver County Attorney Jim Keeler said Wednesday that jurors found the boy, now 17, not guilty of all charges in the death of 33-year-old Kirk Anderson Jr.
The county attorney charged the boy, then 16, with second- and third-degree murder for allegedly assaulting Anderson with a metal pipe last August in Chaska.
Anderson was dating the boy's mother. He suffered head injuries in the fight and died at HCMC.
The prosecutor tried to have the teen tried as an adult. But a judge denied that request last December.
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