(WPXI) – Authorities have charged both parents for the murder of a 9-year-old boy found dead in New Kensington in May. Azuree Charles was found dead behind his house and the coroner ruled his death a homicide a short time later. During a press conference on Wednesday, Westmoreland County District Attorney Nicole Ziccarelli announced that both Jean Charles and Luella Elien, Azuree’s parents, were being charged in his death. Ziccarelli said that Azuree died by mechanical strangulation. Jean Charles is charged with first-degree murder, criminal homicide, abuse of a corpse, strangulation, tampering with evidence, unlawful restraint of a minor by a parent and concealing the death of a child related to Azuree’s death. Elien is charged with aggravated assault of a victim less than 13 years old, endangering the welfare of a child and hindering the apprehension or prosecution of another.