The 8-year-old's attorney says he's considering the deal, which would resolve all charges without it being transferred to adult court.
Reporting from Phoenix -- Prosecutors have offered a plea deal to an 8-year-old boy charged with murder in the shooting deaths of his father and another man, court records show.
Complete details of the offer weren't spelled out in a court filing posted Saturday on the Apache County Superior Court's website.
But Apache County Atty. Criss Candelaria wrote that he has "tendered a plea offer to the juvenile's attorneys that would resolve all the charges in the juvenile court contingent on the results of the mental health evaluations."
Candelaria was responding to a defense motion seeking to block him from dropping one of two first-degree murder charges the boy is facing for the shooting deaths of his father, Vincent Romero, 29, and Romero's roommate, Timothy Romans, 39, earlier this month.
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