Teen says he shot Sugar Land girl out of 'morbid curiosity'

More in the murder of 16-year-old Ashton Glover: Matthew R. McCombs, one of the two teen suspects caught trying to escape to Canada last week, has confessed to shooting Glover in the head. And why'd he do it? "Morbid curiosity," he told police.

That was basically as much information as Fort Bend County Sheriff Milton Wright gave out Monday, though KPRC reports authorities believe McCombs' confession is true because it jives with information they had found. For example, police said a gun found during a search of McCombs' house — an "old pistol" he reportedly stole from a friend's grandmother's house — was the murder weapon. Police say the murder took place July 7; after the shooting, Wright said, McCombs and Sean Brown had breakfast at IHOP, then returned to the crime scene and buried Glover. "It was premeditated," Wright said. "We were talking to the district attorney earlier, and I don't believe it's going to reach, at this point, the level of a capital murder."

McCombs is expected to be arraigned this morning. Brown, who was caught at the Canadian border with McCombs, is still in Michigan awaiting an extradition hearing.