Here's a bit of an update:
The full circumstances surrounding the 13-year-old victim's death remained unclear Monday, after Joshua Cooper broke down during his preliminary hearing.
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Published Mar 6, 2023
"The full circumstances surrounding the 13-year-old victim's death remained unclear Monday, after Joshua Cooper broke down during his preliminary hearing."
"But after just two witnesses in what promised to be the first public accounting of the circumstances surrounding the victim’s death, Cooper’s attorney, Paul Lang, asked Magisterial District Judge Michael Gallagher to end the hearing.
Cooper ultimately waived the proceeding, sending the charges up to the county court in Doylestown. Afterward, Lang declined to discuss what led Cooper to change his mind about having the hearing."
"When officers arrived at Cooper’s trailer, they spotted him running from the scene, toward a wooded area nearby. Inside the trailer’s small, cramped bathroom, officers found the 13-year-old victim. She was lying facedown, shot once in the back.
Police have declined to identify the victim, prosecutors said, at the request of her family.
A pile of blood-soaked towels were next to the body, as were bottles of beach and other household cleaners, the officers testified Monday. It appeared, they said, that someone had attempted to clean up the scene.
Bullet holes in the home made it seem to the officers that the shot that killed the girl had been fired inside the trailer and traveled outside. Investigators later found a bullet lodged in the exterior wall of another trailer nearby."
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