A 12-year-old girl is currently being charged with murder after it was captured on tape suffocating her 8-year-old cousin while she slept.
A surveillance camera captured the murder on July 15, in Humboldt, Tennessee, inside the bedroom they shared, according to ABC News. The county prosecutor confirmed this.
According to Gibson District Attorney Frederick Agee’s statement, the recording shows the older child suffocating her cousin with bedding while the younger girl slept in the top bunk. Agee stated that “the juvenile cleaned up the victim and repositioned her body” after the youngster passed away.
The girls had been fighting over an iPhone after arriving from out of town to stay with their grandma, a relative said Memphis’ WREG-TV.
The girl was charged with first-degree murder and tampering with evidence after authorities obtained the video last Wednesday.
“I consider this to be one of the most disturbing violent acts committed by either an adult or juvenile that my office has prosecuted,” Agee wrote in the statement.
He said he would petition a judge to prosecute the girl, who turns 13 later this month, in adult court, which would allow for “a lengthier sentence, whether that will be through incarceration or supervision with court-ordered conditions.”
