Trial Begins For Daughter Tia Skinner Charged In Yale Stabbing

PORT HURON, Mich. -- The trial for a woman charged in the fatal stabbing of her father in Yale started Tuesday in Port Huron.

Tia Skinner, 18, was in St. Clair County Circuit Court for the murder charge.

Paul Skinner was stabbed to death in November. His wife, Mara, was seriously wounded in the attack.

Prosecutors allege Tia Skinner was angry at her parents for forbidding her from seeing Jonathan Kurtz and confiscating her cell phone after finding texts from him. Authorities said Kurtz and James Preston broke into the Skinner's home and attacked the couple when Tia Skinner was in the basement watching a movie.

Prosecutor Michael Wendling said Skinner not only planned the killing and provide knives for it, but she and her cohorts looked forward to it.

Kurtz was convicted in June. Preston was convicted last month. They will be sentenced in September.