Attorneys appointed for boy charged with stabbing classmate

SALT LAKE CITY — Attorneys were appointed Thursday for a 16-year-old boy charged with murder in the death of his classmate.

Jonatan Bustos, of West Valley City, was arguing with fellow Hunter High student Taylor Pankow over a stolen iPod outside the Family Dollar Store, 4715 S. 1460 West when he pulled out a knife and stabbed Pankow, charging documents state.

Bustos told police he had been carrying a knife ever since he and the victim started arguing over the iPod a few days before Pankow was stabbed. The boys had agreed to meet in the Dollar Store parking lot to settle their differences, police say.

Bustos admitted to stabbing Pankow twice in the abdomen outside the West Valley store and then running away, the charges state.

Prosecutors charged Bustos as an adult.

Attorneys Heather Brereton and Patrick Corum appeared in 3rd District Court Thursday to represent Bustos. Bustos appeared via video Thursday from the Salt Lake County Jail.

Relatives of both Pankow and Bustos were at the hearing, but declined comment.

Bustos will have a scheduling conference Sept. 13.

— Emiley Morgan