The 14-year-old boy who Baltimore police say confessed to beating his grandmother into critical condition with a hammer has been charged as an adult with attempted first-degree murder, according to court records.
At his bail review Friday morning, Hassanhii Garrett sat in the front row wearing a teal school shirt with his hands shackled behind him. At 5-foot-3, he could pass for a boy several years younger.
When a judge read the charges against him, a detainee in his 60s who was sitting behind the boy looked at him and shook his head in disbelief. The boy, a ninth grader with no prior contacts with the criminal justice system, stared at the ground and did not react throughout the hearing.
Garrett told police that he repeatedly struck his 66-year-old grandmother, Shirley Garrett, in the head with a hammer after he got angry at her while getting ready for school. He called 911, and police responding to the home in the 800 block of E. 34th St. found her face down on the floor in a pool of blood.
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