SPOKANE — Investigators have discovered fingerprints linking two teenagers to an 88-year-old World War II veteran who was beaten to death last month, authorities said.
Police said in an affidavit that Demetruis Glenn and Kenan Adams-Kinard, both 16, killed Delbert “Shorty” Belton on Aug. 22 while he sat in his car. Investigators found Glenn’s prints on the exterior rear driver’s side door and the interior of the rear driver’s side passenger door and Adams-Kinard’s prints were on the exterior driver’s door and the interior of the rear driver’s side passenger door, according to the affidavit.
Belton’s body was found wedged between the front bucket seats, with his lower body from the neck down folded into the back seat area, according to the affidavit.
Arraignment set
Glenn and Adams-Kinard will be arraigned Sept. 12. Both face charges of first-degree murder and two charges of first-degree robbery. They are being tried as adults.