Iowa teen solicits parody 'Hit Man' website to assassinate 7-year-old -- and gets promptly arrested
A 17-year-old girl in Iowa has been arrested after she contacted a parody "Hit Man" website with an apparently sincere attempt to have a 7-year-old child assassinated.
Local news station KCCI reports that police in Storm Lake, Iowa were contacted late last week by the owner of the "Rent-a-Hitman" parody website after they received a request to take out a child that included detailed information on their address and appearance.
Police proceeded to call up the teen girl who made the request while posing as a prospective assassin, and police subsequently determined she was serious enough about having the 7-year-old killed to warrant taking her into custody.
CBS News reports that police subsequently searched the teen girl's phone and deemed her threat to have the child killed as credible.
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The teenager has since been slapped with a felony charge of solicitation to commit murder.
Neither the targeted child nor their family were harmed in any way by the teen's assassination plot, police said.