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Girl convicted of second-degree murder in Blake stabbing

Thursday, Dec. 22, 2005

Saying the teenager intended to escalate a fist fight by plunging a serrated knife into another teen’s heart, Circuit Court Judge Terrence J. McGann this morning found the 16-year-old Sherwood High School junior guilty in the second-degree murder of Kanisha ‘‘Missy” Neal.

‘‘[Y]ou lied so much, you must have had trouble separating fact from fiction,” McGann told the accused in reference to her statements to police.

In Juvenile Court proceedings, the technical term for finding someone guilty is to say that person was ‘‘involved.”

Neal, a 15-year old Rockville High School student, was fatally stabbed in a parking lot brawl following a Friday night football game at James Hubert Blake High School in Cloverly on Sept. 23.

Throughout the trial the defendant pleaded self-defense, arguing she was getting beaten so badly by Neal and others that she had to use the knife to defend herself.

The convicted teen, who is not being named because she is a juvenile, also was found guilty of carrying a concealed weapon and carrying a deadly weapon on school property.

She will continue to be held at the Alfred D. Noyes juvenile detention center in Rockville until a placement hearing on Jan. 5. The teen faces up to five years of detention at a juvenile facility. She could serve any or all of the five years.