A judge ordered two 16-year-old boys to be tried as adults and publicly identified them on Wednesday after they allegedly shot a 14-year-old girl in the head because her Snapchats were annoying.

Deserae Turner, 14, nearly died after being shot in the head and left in a ditch in the small northern Utah town of Smithfield in February.

Her mother revealed that the bullet and several fragments are still lodged in her brain and she suffers from partial blindness and paralysis on the left side of her body.

Colter Danny Peterson and Jayzen Decker, both aged 16, have now been publicly identified as the two suspects in the horrific shooting after First District Juvenile Court Judge Angela Fonnesbeck ordered that the case be transferred to the adult system.

Peterson, 16, is accused of shooting her and is charged with attempted aggravated murder, aggravated robbery and other crimes.

Fonnesbeck said that while Decker isn’t suspected of shooting Turner, there is reason to believe that he is the one who created the plan to kill her and called upon his friend to carry it out.

‘He may not have pulled the trigger himself, but he did take a deliberate and specific action to ensure the crime would be committed,’ Fonnesbeck said.

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A judge ordered two 16-year-old boys be tried as adults after they allegedly shot 14-year-old Deserae Turner (above in April after being released from the hospital) in the head because her Snapchats were annoying

Turner (above in April after being released from the hospital) nearly died after being shot in the head and left in a ditch in the small northern Utah town of Smithfield in February

‘There was plenty of time for the defendant to step away from the crime and he did not do so.’

Decker is also charged with attempted aggravated murder, aggravated robbery and other crimes.

Both Decker and Peterson are expected to make their first appearances in 1st District Court on Thursday.

If convicted, both Decker and Peterson now face the same penalties as if they were adults.

The attempted aggravated murder charge carries a maximum penalty of 15 years to life in the Utah State Prison, according to the Salt Lake Tribune.

The teenage girl survived the shooting and was upbeat when she spoke at a news conference last month on the day she left a hospital where she had been since the shooting.

She has declined to talk about her injuries, but said she’s happy to be alive and that she’s ‘tougher than a bullet.’

Her mother said, before the shooting, that her summer goals would have been to ‘ride horses, practice karate. Now it’s just to move her fingers.’

During the press conference last month, she arrived in a wheelchair with short hair and a brace on her lower left leg.

Colter Danny Peterson and Jayzen Decker, both aged 16, have been publicly identified as the two suspects in Turner’s (above in April) horrific shooting after First District Juvenile Court Judge Angela Fonnesbeck ordered that the case be transferred to the adult system

The teenage girl (above left in April and before the shooting on the right) survived the shooting and was upbeat when she spoke at a news conference last month on the day she left a hospital where she had been since the shooting

Turner, who sported a shirt saying ‘Happy’, thanked the doctors and therapists who sent her prayers.

Her father, Matt Turner, said at the time it was a joyous day and called his daughter a determined and courageous young woman who has battled for her life.

The crime shocked residents in the small town of Smithfield, a bedroom community near Logan, Utah.

Authorities say the two teenage boys accused of shooting Turner concocted the plan while playing video games and discussing their desire to ‘get rid’ of the girl who was texting one of them.

One of the boys told police that he shot her because he was annoyed she kept messaging him on Snapchat.

Turner considered the boys her friends, and was left in utter disbelief when she woke up in the hospital to learn they had shot her in the head and left her in a dirty canal, according to the Salt Lake Tribune.

She has declined to talk about her injuries, but said she’s happy to be alive and that she’s ‘tougher than a bullet.’ She is pictured above with her parents on April 20 when she was released from the hospital

Two women searching for her after she was reported missing found her in this ditch above on February 16. When she was found, her injuries were so severe that she had to be put in a medically induced coma at a Salt Lake City hospital

Cache County Sheriff Deputy Brian Groves said during a court hearing that one of the boys complained to the other defendant about Turner texting and Snapchatting him too frequently.

The defendant responded: ‘It would be pretty easy to get rid of her.’

After the premeditated shooting, the boys stole her backpack with her cellphone and iPod.

Turner told her friends over text message that she was getting ‘picked on’ by the two boys. They invited Turner to meet her at the canal to sell her a knife.

The shooter originally intended to slit Turner’s throat and let her bleed out in the rural area on February 15. However, the boys decided it would be quieter to just shoot her.

One of the boys took a bullet casing from the scene as a memento of the crime.

When the shooter was speaking about the murder plot to the other defendant, he callously said over text: ‘Let’s get this done, bro.’

Turner was found by two women on February 16 who were searching for her body after reports that she was missing started spreading on social media, KUTV reported.

When she was found, her injuries were so severe that she had to be put in a medically induced coma at a Salt Lake City hospital.

The two defendants lived in Smithfield and attended Sky View High School while Turner lives in Amalga and attended North Cache Middle School in Richmond.