Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for one of the suspects in the slaying of a transgender teenager in southwest Missouri, ABC News reported quoting AP.

Court records show plans requesting the sentence for Andrew Vrba were filed Monday. Vrba is charged with first-degree murder in the death of 17-year-old Ally Steinfeld. Investigators say Steinfeld was stabbed several times, including in the genitals. Her eyes were gouged out and her body was set on fire. Officials say the slaying wasn't a hate crime.

One female suspect has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for second-degree murder, while another awaits a first-degree murder trial. A fourth suspect has pleaded not guilty to abandonment of a corpse.