The Arizona Republic-12 News Breaking News Team Tue Jan 21, 2014 4:25 PM

Glendale police have arrested a 16-year-old girl in connection with the strangulation death of a Phoenix man during what she claimed to be a consensual sex act, officials said.

The girl, whose name was not released by police because she is a juvenile, was booked Saturday into a detention facility on suspicion of second-degree murder. She remained there Tuesday.

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Police were called to the 6200 block of West Olive Avenue on Saturday at about 5:45 p.m. on report of a injured person in an apartment. What they found instead was a dead 43-year-old man, officials said.

Sgt. Jay O’Neill, a Glendale police spokesman, Jason Ash had several cuts to his body and a cord around his neck.

Police first interviewed the teenager’s mother, who said she had been home for a time but left her daughter and her daughter’s friend, Ash, alone at the apartment.

She later received a call from her daughter indicating that she and Ash were involved in a consensual sex act involving strangulation, and that Ash was dead, according to police. The mother said she returned to the apartment, called 911 and attempted to resuscitate Ash.

Police said the 16-year-old had fled the apartment before officers arrived; she was taken into custody at neighboring unit.

O’Neill said the teenager confessed to strangling Ash during a sex act and to cutting him. Police are not releasing her name because it’s not yet clear if she will be charged as an adult.

Police said the investigation is ongoing.

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