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Jun 22, 2009 5:13 pm US/Central

Teen Pleads Not Guilty To Stabbing 4-Year-Old Girl

JOLIET, Ill. (Sun-Times Media Wire) ―

Click to enlarge 1 of 1: Keith Randulich, 18, was charged May 23, 2009 with the stabbing death of his 4-year-old half-sister.
Will County State's Attorney's Office

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A Mokena teen who told police he slit his 4-year-old half-sister's throat because he couldn't get a gun to kill the person he believed was abusing the girl pleaded innocent today to two counts of first-degree murder.

Keith Randulich, 18, of 19433 York Drive, was arraigned in Will County court. He wore glasses and sat shackled with several other Will County Jail inmates after Judge Richard Schoenstedt called his case. Randulich remains in jail on $10 million bail.

"It was me," Randulich told police when they came to his family's home May 22 and found him covered in blood, according to a search warrant affidavit Mokena police filed June 9.

Later that night, Randulich told police he wanted to kill a person he thought had been molesting his sister, Sabrina, for two years. He got a firearm owners ID card and asked his mother on the day he allegedly killed Sabrina to buy him a gun, according to the affidavit.

When she refused, she and her son argued, so she left her 16-year-old son in charge of the little girl while she and her husband went to her 14-year-old son's school, the affidavit continued.

Randulich said the person he believed was abusing his sister was too big to kill without a gun, the affidavit said. So while his brother was upstairs playing a wrestling video game, Randulich decided to slit his sister's neck because he thought "it would be quick." He called 911, saying he "murdered his sister with a knife," the affidavit said.

Sabrina's death was the first murder in Mokena in more than 25 years, police said.

Randulich is to return to court July 20.