More than a month after 17-year-old Newark Charter High School junior Madison Sparrow was lured into a wooded area and beaten to death, a classmate has become the second person charged with her murder, prosecutors said.
Annika Stalczynski, 17, was arrested Monday after a New Castle County Grand Jury indicted her on one count of first-degree murder.
Stalczynski was also indicted on possession of a deadly weapon during the commission of a felony and conspiracy. Prosecutors said Stalczynski and 19-year-old Noah Sharp, Sparrow's ex-boyfriend, planned the murder together.
Sharp was charged with the same crimes as Stalczynski within a day of police of finding Sparrow's body.
According to court documents, Sparrow's mother reported her missing at about 8:30 p.m. on Oct. 2 after she didn't come home from a trip to the store with a friend. The friend has not been publicly identified.
When detectives questioned Sharp following his Oct. 5 arrest, he admitted to killing his ex-girlfriend, saying he'd hit her in the head with an aluminum baseball bat. He also said after Sparrow was dead, he took her body to another "wooded area" near Route 896 and Interstate 95.
That's where police found her body.
Court documents don't give a motive for the crime, but Sharp said he and Stalczynski had planned it. They then "carried (it) out in the afternoon/evening hours" of Oct. 2, the day Sparrow went missing.
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