McKayla Dyer, 8, and her mother, Latasha
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An 11-year-old boy has been charged with murder after he killed his 8-year-old neighbor, police said, and witnesses say it was because the girl wouldn’t let him see her puppy.
Deputies were called to the neighborhood in White Pine, about 40 miles east of Knoxville, on Saturday night. The boy shot the girl from inside his home with his father’s 12-gauge shotgun, said Jefferson County Sheriff Bud McCoig.
Latasha Dyer told WATE-TV her daughter was playing outside when the next-door neighbor asked to see the puppy. McKayla told the boy “no,” and he shot her, Dyer said. A neighbor, Misty Edwards, said her niece was playing with the girl and saw what happened.
“She was a precious little girl. She was a mommy’s girl. No matter how bad of a mood you were in, she could always make you smile,” Dyer told the station. “I want her back in my arms.”
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The two children went to the same school, where McKayla was in second grade and the boy in fifth grade. Dyer said the boy had bullied her daughter before, when they first moved to the neighborhood.
“He was making fun of her, calling her names, just being mean to her,” she said. “I had to go to the principal about him and he quit for a while, and then all of a sudden yesterday he shot her.”
http://nypost.com/2015/10/05/devastated-mom-says-boy-shot-her-8-year-old-daughter-dead-over-puppy/
Devastated mom says boy shot her 8-year-old daughter dead over puppy
By Associated Press
October 5, 2015 | 2:31pm
New York Post
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McKayla Dyer, 8
http://wate.com/2015/10/04/8-yr-old-girl-dies-in-white-pine-shooting-police-arrest-11-yr-old-suspect/
White Pine Elementary student shot, killed; 11-year-old charged with murder
By Kristen Holloway and Brandon Rook
Published: October 4, 2015, 6:30 am Updated: October 5, 2015, 1:39 pm
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