Boy who killed girl over puppy got gun from unlocked closet, sheriff says, As a Tennessee association prepares to coffin a babe allegedly asleep by an 11-year-old boy over a puppy, added data emerged about the gun acclimated in the shooting.
The adolescent faces first-degree annihilation accuse in the afterlife of MaKayla "BooBah" Dyer, 8.
He accursed at her from his abode Saturday, killing the babe who was in her yard, Jefferson County Sheriff Bud McCoig told The Washington Post.
Where did he get a gun?
The boy acclimated his father's 12-gauge shotgun, which he got from an apart closet, the sheriff told the paper.
He is getting captivated on a first-degree annihilation allegation in a adolescent apprehension center. The center's superintendent, Richard Bean, said the boy is the youngest captivated there on a annihilation allegation in his 44-year career. Bean declared him as "very tiny," belief about 55 pounds.
He is in a approved "pod" that holds up to 16 added juveniles amid ages 12 and 17.
'Most abject case'
The adventure started if the boy asked to see the girl's puppy, McCoig said.
When she said no, the boy got a gun and attempt her asleep Saturday, according to the sheriff.
The Jefferson County District Attorney's Office will actuate whether the boy should be approved as an adult.
He is getting bedfast until a audition on October 28, his accessible defender, Edward Miller, told CNN associate WATE. He beneath to animadversion further.
"It is the a lot of abject case on both sides," Bean said.
'I wish her aback home'
MaKayla died three weeks afterwards her 8th birthday.
Her mother, Latasha Dyer, afraid aback tears as she talked about her daughter.
"I wish her aback home, I wish her aback in my arms," she said. "This is not fair."
Her afterlife has ashamed the baby boondocks of White Pine, which is 40 afar east of Knoxville.
"She was a lovable, little, ambrosial and archetypal 8-year old babe that enjoyed activity and admired everybody," great-uncle Kenneth Norton told CNN. " She didn't apperceive (any) strangers ... and anytime that you were accomplishing annihilation ... she capital to be a allotment of it."
She will be active Thursday at 2 p.m. in Luttrell, Tennessee.
The adolescent faces first-degree annihilation accuse in the afterlife of MaKayla "BooBah" Dyer, 8.
He accursed at her from his abode Saturday, killing the babe who was in her yard, Jefferson County Sheriff Bud McCoig told The Washington Post.
Where did he get a gun?
The boy acclimated his father's 12-gauge shotgun, which he got from an apart closet, the sheriff told the paper.
He is getting captivated on a first-degree annihilation allegation in a adolescent apprehension center. The center's superintendent, Richard Bean, said the boy is the youngest captivated there on a annihilation allegation in his 44-year career. Bean declared him as "very tiny," belief about 55 pounds.
He is in a approved "pod" that holds up to 16 added juveniles amid ages 12 and 17.
'Most abject case'
The adventure started if the boy asked to see the girl's puppy, McCoig said.
When she said no, the boy got a gun and attempt her asleep Saturday, according to the sheriff.
The Jefferson County District Attorney's Office will actuate whether the boy should be approved as an adult.
He is getting bedfast until a audition on October 28, his accessible defender, Edward Miller, told CNN associate WATE. He beneath to animadversion further.
"It is the a lot of abject case on both sides," Bean said.
'I wish her aback home'
MaKayla died three weeks afterwards her 8th birthday.
Her mother, Latasha Dyer, afraid aback tears as she talked about her daughter.
"I wish her aback home, I wish her aback in my arms," she said. "This is not fair."
Her afterlife has ashamed the baby boondocks of White Pine, which is 40 afar east of Knoxville.
"She was a lovable, little, ambrosial and archetypal 8-year old babe that enjoyed activity and admired everybody," great-uncle Kenneth Norton told CNN. " She didn't apperceive (any) strangers ... and anytime that you were accomplishing annihilation ... she capital to be a allotment of it."
She will be active Thursday at 2 p.m. in Luttrell, Tennessee.
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