Oneida County Homicides: friends describe accused as 'outgoing,' 'caring'

RHINELANDER - Fewer than two weeks ago, 17-year-old Ashlee Martinson worked at a Rhinelander retail store and was a student at Rhinelander High School. She now she sits in an Indiana jail, charged with two counts of first degree intentional homicide.

Investigators believe she shot and killed her 37-year-old stepfather, Thomas Ayers, and stabbed her 40-year-old mother, Jennifer Ayers, to death two weekends ago at their home east of Rhinelander. Her friends remain shocked.

"She was happy, you know, it was her birthday, she was having a good day, the last I knew," said Martinson's friend Ceara Clarke.

Full story: WJFW

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