A Texas teenage killer was charged with slaying his neighbor because he wanted to experience “what it was like to stab someone.”
Texas teenage killer stabs neighbor
The unnamed 15-year-old is accused of killing 62-year-old Dana Magnuson at her residence in Hockley, Texas.
He was identified as the main suspect and arrested nine days after Magnuson’s body was found in her shed on July 20.
The suspected teenage killer initially attacked Magnuson in her backyard hot tub before the struggle continued into her home and ended in her shed.
Once apprehended, the boy, who had previously helped the woman in her garden, told investigators his motivation was simply that he wanted to know what it felt like to stab someone.
He is currently being held at the Harris County Juvenile Detention Center.
“I’m just numb,” Magnuson’s son, Tyler Pitney, told the press “The way my mom was murdered in cold blood makes me feel some type of way I can’t even describe.”
Boy lights neighbor’s pet on fire
Meanwhile, a Maryland family is devastated after their pet dog, Bear, was severely burned with a lighter, and their young neighbor is suspected of the attack.
Latricia Jones, the owner of a three-and-a-half-year-old pit bull terrier, suspects her nine-year-old neighbor is the person who harmed her pooch.
Surveillance footage from a doorbell camera shows the 9-year-old child going into and leaving the family’s backyard several times on the day of the attack.
Jones believes the boy used a torch lighter light her dog’s back on fire, though he denied he was ever in the backyard, despite footage that proves he was there.
Prince George’s County Police and the Fire Marshal’s Office are investigating the incident, but no charges have been filed yet.
Though he was caught on camera going in the backyard, there is no footage of the burning incident, and authorities seem hesitant to act, according to Jones.
“Without actual footage showing him burning the dog, it’s like they’re like, ‘well, he didn’t do it,'” she explained.
“But he said he also didn’t go to the backyard… I have him on camera three times going into the backyard when no one else was around.”
“The police said it’s a minor, and there’s not a lot they can really do in a juvenile case like this,” Jones added.
As for Bear, “He’s stable right now. He’s on antibiotics and pain meds, so I think the pain medication is kind of sedating him a little,” Jones said about her injured dog. “He is resting. Sometimes he cries.”
Bear’s recovery is expected to be long and painful, with estimated surgical costs $10,000. Jones wants his parents held accountable for the costs and for the boy to acknowledge what he did to her dog.
“I know he can’t go to jail. I don’t want to see him go to jail,” she remarked. “He’s 9 years old, but I want to see if maybe he gets some type of professional intervention, you know.
Teenage killer goes to court
A 13-year-old teenage boy was brought to court to face charges of murdering his 10-year-old best friend in a gruesome attack.
James Campbell was arraigned at Westmoreland County Courthouse in Pennsylvania on Thursday afternoon, the same day he allegedly slayed his 10-year-old cousin Hunter Meyers.
Campbell is accused of stabbing Meyers multiple times in the head while he was asleep at his grandmother’s home.
Meyers’ body was found early Thursday morning with the knife allegedly used to slaughter him at his side. Campbell was discovered at the home with blood on his pants and feet.
When police interviewed Campbell, he confessed to murdering his younger cousin, but his motive is still unknown.
“I don’t say we would have any specific argument or anything that took place that we would call a motive. I don’t think that that’s the right word to use,” Trooper Steve Limani said about the teenage killer.
Meyers’ mother Dorothy Meyers is baffled why Campbell would kill his cousin, who he was best friends with.
She noted there had never been any concerns about Campbell before the incident and that there were “no warning” signs that the brutal crime would take place.
Campbell was charged with criminal homicide and first-degree murder, and will be tried as an adult. He is currently being held without bond.
