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A 12-year-old woman is in custody in Tulsa, Oklahoma, after fatally stabbing her 9-year-old brother, in keeping with police.
The kid is being held in a Tulsa juvenile detention facility, in keeping with a Tulsa Police information launch.
Officers responded to a stabbing late Thursday evening, the discharge mentioned. When officers arrived, paramedics and firefighters “had been already on scene and performing CPR to a 9-year-old male sufferer,” police mentioned.
“Officers discovered the youngsters’s dad or mum was upstairs asleep when the 12-year-old daughter woke the dad or mum up and mentioned that she had stabbed her nine-year-old brother,” mentioned the discharge.
The boy “was rushed to the hospital and brought into surgical procedure,” however succumbed to his accidents shortly after 2:30 a.m. CT, in keeping with police.
The 12-year-old suspect was taken into custody and is being held on the Household Heart for Juvenile Justice, mentioned the information launch. Neither little one has been recognized by authorities.
The Tulsa Police Division Youngster Disaster Unit is dealing with the stabbing investigation.
That is the second murder within the metropolis of Tulsa this 12 months, the division mentioned.