He was behaving like a typical 11-year-old, said Montgomery County Police Chief J. Thomas Manger. Gliding up and down the pavement.
What the 11-year-old didnt know, authorities said, was that his mother had been beaten and stabbed to death in their nearby apartment. William was at the storage center happily waiting with the man police say killed his mother Curtis Lopez, his stepfather.
By the end of the day, Oct. 1, police said, Lopez would also kill William and toss his body in the woods.
For days, police and volunteers conducted a massive search in hopes the boy would be found alive. Friends gathered for a vigil, and his football buddies put stickers on their helmets: William McQuain. We ♥ U. But Tuesday morning, hope turned to mourning when police said the boys body had been found in a wooded area just off a Clarksburg road. Detectives had focused on that area after tracking Lopezs cellphone use.
This confirmed our worst fears, said Jeff McDermott, who coached William on a Little League All-Star team. He was a great kid, a great player. He did everything we asked him to do.
Lopez and Jane McQuain had a long and troubled relationship, but only days earlier the two had taken William on a vacation to Ocean City. A friend said Jane McQuain called from the beach, saying that she and Lopez had argued and that she was scared.
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