Posted by Samuel on Tue 06th Oct, 2015 - tori.ng
An 11-year-old boy has been charged with murder after he killed his 8-year-old neighbour.
An 11-year-old eastern Tennessee boy is in custody for murder on Monday October 5 for shooting and killing an 8-year-old neighbour girl with a shotgun. Witnesses say it was because the girl wouldn't let him see her puppies.
According to reports, the unidentified boy was talking to three girls who were outside the window of his mobile home on Saturday evening and asked one of them if he could see her two new puppies, but the girl refused.
It was at this point that the boy retrieved his father's 12-gauge shotgun, shot the girl in the chest from the window, and then threw the weapon outside by the girl's body, McCoig said.
The girl has been identified as Maykayla Dyer, a third-grader at White Pine Elementary School. The boy was in fifth grade at the same school, where counselors were on hand Monday to help the other children deal with the news.
Jefferson County Sheriff G.W. "Bud" McCoig described the incident as a “sad, sad situation” and said, "We hope this don't ever happen again."
McCoig revealed that the girl was unresponsive at the scene, and was pronounced dead after being taken to a hospital. The boy, who was unidentified, was taken into custody at his home