A grand jury indicted a Tennessee teen for murder on Monday in the July 2014 armory shooting of an Army National Guard soldier, officials said.
Christopher Clark Farrar, 16,
allegedly gunned down Sgt. 1st Class Michael W. Braden, 45, at a National Guard facility in Lobelville, roughly 80 miles southwest of Nashville.
A judge ruled the teen can be tried as an adult last month, and the 16-year-old received the indictment on Tuesday at the juvenile center where he's been incarcerated,
according to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.
Prison officials will now transfer Farrar to the Perry County Jail for his murder trial.
The teen, who had been expelled from his school, allegedly said he wanted to “make history” and texted his intention to “go to the armory and kill everyone until they kill me” before he took the father of five and 27-year Guardsman’s life on July 9, 2014,
The Nashville Tennessean reported. Police captured Farrar at his grandmother’s house that night,
according to WSMV-TV.
Braden was managing the daily operations at the armory after two tours in Kuwait at the time of the shooting.
“The world lost a very good man that day,” Perry County Sheriff’s Deputy Dave Pendleton, the only other person who was at the armory that day, told the TV station.
The attack happened about a year before 24-year-old
Mohammad Youssef Abdulazeez opened fire at two military facilities in Chattanooga, killing four Marines. Perry County Chief Deputy Nick Weems remembered grabbing Farrar’s wrists with one hand rather than cuffing him as he arrested the teen in an interview with WSMV published the day before the Chattanooga massacre.