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LOGAN, Utah — Two teenage boys accused of wounding a girl with a gunshot to the head concocted the plan in small-town Utah while playing video games and discussing their desire to “get rid” of the girl who was sending messages to one of them, authorities said.

“I just didn’t want anything to do with Snapchatting her anymore,” one of the 16-year-old boys said, according to a statement he gave to police that was read aloud in juvenile court Tuesday.

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“Well, you’ve got a 6-inch blade, why don’t you do it yourself,” his friend replied.

The first boy said he first thought it was a “crude joke” but they kept plotting and settled on a plan that called for him to slit 14-year-old Deserae Turner’s throat, the statement said.

He could not go through with it, so instead he shot her in the back of the head in an isolated ditch behind a high school using a gun he grabbed from underneath his brother’s mattress, police said.