GUILTY NC - Emily Haddock, 12, shot to death in her Vass home, 21 Sept 2007

[opme]

That poor child!! Can you imagine the fear she felt with 4 men breaking into the house?? I would have been terrified, I might have jumped out of the window to get away from them.

We live in an area were we dont lock the doors on the house during the day, basically the last person in for the night locks them. Stories like this remind me that I dont need to move, I'll just stay here.

The area where Emily was sounds similar to yours.. its very rural and there is a great distance between the homes.. which is partly why the chose these homes to break into .. unfortunately they didnt realize she was home and they choose to escalate from theft and breaking and entering to murder. I do feel terribly for Emily and for those loved one who have been left behind.. They must be devasted.

 

[CaliKid]

Poor, poor Emily. She must have been so frightened with 4 big guys (adults to her) breaking into her house with no family to protect her.

My daughter is 12, and I just can't imagine having to leave her home alone, sick. I agree with everyone who said they'd quit a job before leaving a young child home by herself.

Thinking about the teens who killed her, their lives are over. No, I'm not feeling sorry for them, I'm trying to understand a motive for killing a little girl. A 16 year old, one 18, two who are 19- all for some things they could pawn for a few bucks. Where are their brains? In the off chance that Emily would've recognized them and turned them in, what would they have gotten for breaking and entering and robbery? A few years maybe. Now it's life, or maybe even the death penalty for the three oldest.

Note to Txmom: lock your doors. Nowhere is safe.

 

[Indiana at Heart]

http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/1891911/

 

[opme]

Not to make of light of a terrible situation or take away from the horror Emily and her family have been thru..

But since when does it take 5 morons to rob an "empty" house.....? How evil are these perps that not one onf them had the sense to prevent this tragedy.. It just makes me so sad to think of how terrified this little girl was and the pain she went thru and of the pain her family is now dealing with now that she is gone.

 

[JoeFromLB]

http://www.fayobserver.com/articles/2010/08/03/1018711?sac=Home

Wed Aug 4, 2010

CARTHAGE - When Michael Graham Currie and Sherrod Harrison kicked in the door of the double-wide on Marks Road near the Moore-Harnett county line, prosecutors say they found Emily Haddock, home with strep throat.

Currie admitted in court Tuesday morning that he shot the 12-year-old in the mouth and the top of the head with a stolen .22-caliber pistol Sept. 21, 2007, killing her.

His admission to Judge James Webb was his second attempt at pleading guilty and spared him the chance of execution by lethal injection. The plea bargain means the district attorney's office will recommend he receive a life sentence with no possibility of parole.

 

[JoeFromLB]

 

[SkewedView]

This article has some additional details -
http://www.thepilot.com/news/2010/aug/04/suspect-pleads-guilty-haddock-murder/



Krueger described the suspects' method as knocking on doors pretending to be lost and looking for directions. If nobody answered, they would break the door and go in looking for weapons and other valuables, she said.

The girl had spoken with her mother a couple of times that morning, unhappy to have to spend a boring day out of school, according to court statements. She was in a back room, putting together a puzzle on the floor when she heard the intruders coming in. She apparently tried to hide in a bathroom and was in the doorway when she was shot.

More details of that day may be available after sentencing.




More at link
Bold by me - that just really got to me when I read it...

 

[OkieGranny]

From November 2010:

http://www.wral.com/man-pleads-guilty-in-vass-12-year-old-s-slaying/8545450/

Van Roger Smith Jr., 19, pleaded guilty Friday to being an accessory after the fact of first-degree murder in the death of Emily Elizabeth Haddock. He was sentenced to 58 to 79 months in prison...

Michael Graham Currie, 21, pleaded guilty in August to first-degree murder and breaking and entering in the case and was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Sherrod Nicholas Harrison pleaded guilty earlier this year to being an accessory after the fact in the case and was sentenced to 93 to 123 months in prison. Ryan Jermar White pleaded guilty in September to an accessory charge and was sentenced to 40 months in prison.

From January 2011:

http://www.wral.com/jury-convicts-man-in-vass-12-year-old-s-slaying/8942789/

A jury on Friday convicted a Cameron man of being an accessory to the 2007 slaying of a 12-year-old Moore County girl.

Perry Ross Schiro, 22, was sentenced to 120 to 249 months in prison.

He was the last of five suspects charged in the death of Emily Elizabeth Haddock to be convicted and sentenced.