PICTURED: Teenage girl, 15, who persuaded her new boyfriend and two friends to ambush her ex-boyfriend at his home before killing his mom by running her over
The teenage girl who allegedly plotted an attack on her ex-boyfriend that left his mother dead has been named along with the three other teens responsible.
Elijah Stansell, 18, Raven Sutton, 16, Kimberly Stone, 15, and Hannah Eubanks, 14, went to Hunter Penton's home in Polk City, Florida, on November 9 with a plan to attack him.
Kimberly and Hunter previously dated but broke up six months ago and she moved on with Elijah. Police say there was still a 'dispute' over the romances that was playing out over social media and included Elijah threatening Hunter.
On November 9, Elijah, Kimberly was suspended from their school because teachers had discovered her threatening messages to him. To get revenge, she and her friends drove to Hunter's home to ambush him.
They were inside and beating him up when Hunter's mother 52-year-old Suzette - a school librarian and mother-of-four - arrived home and chased them out of the house.
The four teens then got into their van but before they fled, Elijah - who was behind the wheel - ran her over. It was captured on video by a witness who watched in horror.
Suzette spent three weeks in the hospital in critical condition but died on Monday.
Initially, all of the kids were charged with attempted murder but Elijah has now been charged with murder and the three others, who were being charged as juveniles, are now being turned over to adult court.
Suzette Penton, 52, died on Monday, three weeks after being run over outside her home by teenagers who had shown up to attack her teenage son Hunter (shown together) She chased them out of the house and into the street where they got into their van and mowed her down
This is the moment Elijah Stansell ran over Suzette Penton outside her home. She died in the hospital on Monday. She had come home to find Elijah beating up her teenage son and ran out of the house to take photos of him and his accomplices to later give police when she was mowed down
Elijah Stansell, 18, has been charged with murder. He was driving the van which he'd borrowed from the church where his father works as a pastor. Kimberly Stone, Elijah's 15-year-old girlfriend who had told him to drive to Hunter Penton's house. She has been charged with attempted murder as an adult
Raven Sutton, 16, also joined in the attack, punching Hunter, while Hannah Eubanks - the youngest of the group and the only one with a criminal record - filmed it on her cell phone
They have also been hit with burglary charges.
According to police, Kimberly been fighting with Hunter for months.
Their arguing became so bad that Kimberly was suspended from school.
'They were talking trash to each other... it was so bad that the school system had warned Kimberly - they suspended her for her outrageous conduct.
'She, in some of her rants and arguing back and forth, just said, "well I'll get my boyfriend and we'll come beat you up."
'After school, that day she was suspended, she gets with her best friend, Hannah Eubanks, and another by the name of Raven Sutton, they get with Elijah and he drives the van to hunter Penton's house,' Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said at a press conference on Tuesday.
She directed him to the house in a van that Elijah had been told he could use by the church where his father is a pastor.
Once at the Penton house, the kids forced their way inside. Elijah started beating Hunter and Raven, the other boy, piled in while Hannah filmed.
Suzette then arrived home unexpectedly and forced them out.
She also took photos and videos of them with her own cellphone to give to the police later.
As she stood in the street taking the pictures, Elijah - who was driving - plowed into her, mowing her down.
Footage released by police shows the teenagers attacking Hunter inside his home before his mom got back
Three of the four teens are shown at the scene. The boys wore masks but Hannah Eubanks, who filmed it, did not
Suzette with three of her four sons. She was also a beloved school librarian and a grandmother
Polk County Sheriff Grady Rudd on Tuesday giving more details about the shocking case
A witness who called 911 said: 'I’m trying to stay back. I don’t know if these people have a gun. They just mowed that poor lady down.'
Police named all of the teenagers after charging them and said they were disgusted by the violence committed.
'This was a coordinated, planned attack, carried out by a group of teens who beat up a teen then ran over his mother, leaving her for dead.
'I can't even fathom teenagers doing something so heinous. Our prayers are with this family,' Sheriff Grady Judd said.
On Tuesday, Grady said Elijah intentionally ran over her so aggressively that it left 'tire tracks on her body'.
'He didn't clip her - she was squared up and he ran over her. Directly over her. Rolled her underneath the van,' he said, disgusted.
'Usually when you have murders, you have drug deals gone wrong, fights...they all went up there to have a teenage fight and it turned to murder.
'There is no doubt in anyone's mind when you see that video, he had every opportunity in the world not to run over this lady but he didn't.
'He used the church van that was intended for good, and used it for evil. He needs to go to prison,' Rudd said.
'What started out as a bunch of kids going to beat up a guy because he used to date Kimberly turned into a murder.
'He controlled and could have stopped the murder but he's the one - he's the driver - that in the church van, ran over and killed this beautiful lady.
'They went from being rowdy, out of control kids to murder,' he said.
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