This article is from July 15.
A teenager charged with killing a missing 13-year-old Beaverton girl in May pleaded not guilty Friday to charges of raping and killing her, then moving her body from the scene.
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A 16-year-old boy charged with killing a missing 13-year-old Beaverton girl in May pleaded not guilty Friday to additional charges that he raped the girl before killing her, then moved her body from the scene.
Daniel Ryan Gore appeared via video conference in Washington County Circuit Court. Through his attorney, Gore pleaded not guilty to seven charges – two counts of first-degree murder, first- and second-degree rape, two counts of first-degree sexual abuse and second-degree abuse of a corpse.
The multiple counts of the same charges offer alternative theories for how the alleged crimes occurred, prosecutors said, but they didn’t offer any details in court or answer questions afterward about how Li died.
Gore is accused of sexually abusing and raping Milana Li, then killing her and moving her body from where she died.
Li’s body
was found in a small stream by a trail May 10, two days after going missing from her family’s home in Southwest Beaverton. Investigators have not said whether Gore knew Li or how Li died.
Li attended Conestoga Middle School. Family and friends
described her as warm, gentle and kind. A for the Li family had raised more than $45,000 as of Friday afternoon.