She could face the death penalty.
Jennifer Mee became known as 'hiccup girl' and left doctors baffled when she began hiccuping 50 times a minute in 2007.
Now police in Tampa, Florida, say the 19-year-old was involved in the fatal shooting of 22-year-old Shannon Griffin on Saturday.
Mee lured Griffin to a home where two men robbed him at gunpoint, according to police. When Griffin fought back he was allegedly shot and killed.
Mee and the others admitted their involvement, police said. All three have been charged with first degree murder, a charge that carriese the death penalty in Florida.
Mee became a mini celebrity with her hiccups. She appeared on multiple television programs and was flown with her mother to New York several times to appear on the Today show.
Months of incessant hiccups left her temporarily unable to attend school as she disrupted other students.
She tried home remedies and consulted medical specialists, a hypnotist, a chiropractor, and an acupuncturist, until the hiccups finally just stopped on their own.
Mee is now no longer suffering from the hiccups, a police spokesman said.
Mee's mother, Rachel Robidoux, wept as she described her daughter as a 'loveable, sweet little girl who wouldn't hurt a fly'.
She said she was a shocked when she learned of the arrest and charges late Sunday night.
'I don't think she knew what was going to happen because that's not Jennifer,' Robidoux said. 'She's not out to hurt anyone.'
Robidoux said Mee had never been arrested or in trouble, but she had been concerned for some time about some of the people Mee had been spending time with after her hiccup notoriety.
'All of sudden people knew her name and she would talk to them on different chat sites and they would act like they knew her when they didn't,' she said.
'She's very naive and I just think she was getting herself into stuff when she didn't know what she was doing.'
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