AR - Christa Shockley, 21, slain, Fouke, 2 Feb 2017 *12yo charged*

[OkieGranny]

http://www.thespec.com/news-story/7...-its-first-murder-suspect-in-decades-he-s-12/

The town of Fouke, Ark., has not seen a homicide in at least a quarter of a century...

All changed last week, when the death of a 21-year-old convenience store clerk rocked the town of less than 900 people. The suspect: a 12-year-old boy now charged with capital murder...

Officers with the Miller County Sheriff's Office were called to an E-Z Mart store just after 2 a.m. on Thursday, after a local newspaper carrier walked in and found Shockley lying on the floor.

Investigators identified the 12-year-old as a suspect later that morning. They had found the gun and clothes that belong to the boy, according to a news release from the sheriff's office.

 

[monkeypants]

Wth, 12??????!!!!!!!

 

[Heyits_tay04]

My god.


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Justice for Susan Winters.

 

[policyoftruth501]

At least they caught him immediately - even if he is only 12.


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[bwt42]

A 12 yr old out @ 2 am on a school night with a gun. The parent should be charged.

 

[monkeypants]

This town is so incredibly small. I simply can't wrap my head around a 12 year old committing the first murder in over 25 years!!!

 

[TTF14]

Out of all of the people this woman was probably leery of working at a convenience store third shift, I'm sure a 12 year old child was not one of them! What in the world?!?!

 

[flourish]

A 12 yr old out @ 2 am on a school night with a gun. The parent should be charged.

Do we know that the parents knew? Was it their gun? Did he sneak out? Are parents not allowed to sleep in case their child might sneak out? Did he steal the gun?

I'm not comfortable placing blame on the parents without more information.

 

[imstilla.grandma]

2019 article:
According to a brief filed by the boy’s attorneys, he suffers from mild autism and was physically abused by his biological mother as a child.

Experts testified that the boy exhibits violent and anti-social behavior including assaults on fellow students, teachers and school staff from a young age. An example of the boy’s unusual behavior includes an incident with Lego building blocks. The boy allegedly surrounded a female Lego figure with red Legos to represent her blood in a murder scene.

Staff at the juvenile detention facility in Miller County testified that the boy is prone to violence. Numerous incidences of the youngster attacking other juveniles in the facility without provocation are mentioned in the court documents. Attacks on staff and verbal threats to kill staff and stand over them while they “take their last breath” are described.

While in detention, the boy allegedly fashioned a comb into a knife.
In October, Circuit Judge Kirk Johnson granted a request from the state for Extended Juvenile Jurisdiction in the case. The boy is too young to be certified to stand trial as an adult in Arkansas. The EJJ designation allows the court to keep a juvenile behind bars past their 18th and 21st birthdays.

Now that the boy’s appeal of his EJJ designation has been affirmed by the appellate court, the boy may be scheduled for a trial in Miller County. Juvenile cases are tried to a judge not a jury. If found guilty of murder in Shockley’s death, the boy could be sentenced to 10 to 40 years or life in prison with parole possible.

In the year before an EJJ defendant turns 21, the court may conduct a hearing to determine if they should be held in adult prison.

Appeals court affirms ruling involving juvenile accused of murder in Christa Shockley's death | Texarkana Today

Last week the Arkansas Court of Appeals appointed a Miller County circuit court’s designation of Extended Juvenile Jurisdiction for a juvenile accused of shooting a Fouke, Ark., convenience store clerk in the early hours of Feb. 2, 2017. The boy was 12 when he allegedly entered the store at...

txktoday.com

 

[borndem]

What a horror, all the way around this sad, sad incident.
The 12 year-old apparently knew where the firearm was located. Did he load it or was it already loaded?
Then he allegedly took the weapon and allegedly did what was reported.
The families of the one killed and of the one who allegedly killed her will never be the same.
And this little Arkansas town has been rocked by the sad incident.
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Fouke is a city in Miller County, Arkansas, United States. It is part of the Texarkana, Texas - Texarkana, Arkansas Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 808 at the 2020 census. Wikipedia
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[MissMalowe]

From the article posted above:

Staff at the juvenile detention facility in Miller County testified that the boy is prone to violence. Numerous incidences of the youngster attacking other juveniles in the facility without provocation are mentioned in the court documents. Attacks on staff and verbal threats to kill staff and stand over them while they “take their last breath” are described.

While in detention, the boy allegedly fashioned a comb into a knife.

This kid is beyond disturbed. Continuing to attack others without provocation while in jail? Doesn't look like he has any redeeming qualities. Wonder what his home life was like