Boy, 11, asks girl, 8, to see her puppies. She declines. He shoots and kills her.
by Xeni Jardin from on (#PW4T)
Authorities in Tennessee say an 11-year-old boy has been detained on first-degree murder charges after shooting and killing an 8-year-old neighbor with a shotgun because she would not show him her pet puppies.
The gun belonged to the boy's father. The two kids went to the same school.
Neighbors interviewed by local news reporters identified the victim as Maykayla Dyer.
"Wanting to see a puppy, the little girl laughed and told him no... and that was it," said neighbor Chasity Arwood.
"Watching the Tennessee football game, heard the bang," Arwood said. "And then everybody screaming that he shot her baby girl."