(Lincoln, NE) -- A 15 year old Lincoln girl is arrested for killing her father Monday afternoon and her 16 year old boyfriend is accused of helping her.
Lincoln Police say just after 4:00 Monday afternoon, police were called to an apartment near South 40th Street and Highway 2 for a stabbing. When officers arrived at the scene, they found 70 year old Jesse Gilmer dead. Police say his daughter, 15 year old Salie Gilmer, reported that she had come home from school and found her father stabbed. Police say Sallie was then driven to the Lincoln Police Department Headquarters she was interviewed by investigators along with other family members. Investigators say her 16-year-old boyfriend, Isaac Honigschmidt, was later located and also driven to Lincoln Police Department Headquarters to be interviewed.
Police say with information obtained during the interviews, digital evidence and evidence collected at the apartment, both Sallie Gilmer and Isaac Honigschmidt were arrested and placed at the Lancaster County Youth Services Center. Gilmer was arrested for 1 st Degree Murder and Use of a Deadly Weapon to Commit a Felony and Honigschmidt was arrested for Aid/Abet Murder in the 1st Degree.
LPD says the investigation is ongoing, and we ask anyone with information to contact the Lincoln Police
Department at 402.441.6000 or if they wish to remain anonymous can call Crime Stoppers at
402.475.3600.