Home security video obtained by Humboldt Police Department investigators reportedly shows a 12-year-old girl using bedding to suffocate her sleeping 8-year-old cousin on the top of the bunk bed they shared.
/Gray News) - An 8-year-old girl was killed by her older cousin on Monday in Humboldt , Tennessee , according to Frederick Agee, District Attorney General for Tennessee Judicial District 28.
He said the 8-year-old was found unresponsive in her bed at a house on East Mitchell Street. Two days later, a tipster came forward saying surveillance video from the bedroom showed what happened. The 8-year-old girl’s name is Demeria. She was visiting from Nashville. Her 12-year-old cousin was visiting from South Carolina. Their grandmother said the two were inseparable.“There is video where the 12-year-old goes and gets tissues and papers,” Agee said, “and tries to clean the 8-year-old’s body and face, and also moves the child, to make it appear that she was under the covers.”
The young suspect is being held three hours away in Rutherford County, the closest juvenile detention facility to Humboldt.
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