A 14-year-old girl has been charged as a juvenile with first-degree murder after allegedly stabbing her little sister in their Chicago home on Tuesday morning.
The 11-year-old victim, who not been named, had more than 30 stab wounds across her neck, chest and arms, and three slashes to her face.
The teenage suspect initially claimed a stranger had broken in, but she allegedly confessed after police revealed they had found a strand of the killer's hair in the victim's hand.
Crime scene: An 11-year-old girl was found stabbed to death in her bedroom in this Mundelein, Chicago home
At a hearing today, the girls' mother wept as prosecutors claimed that the older girl had set her alarm early and made her attack while her little sister was still in bed in their Mundelein home.
Using a kitchen knife, the teenager is said to have stabbed her half-sister 39 times while yelling that the younger girl didn't appreciate everything that she did for her.
The older girl said she had made dinner six times that week and that her sister made her mad after hitting her the night before, the Chicago Sun Times reported.
Their mother was out of the home at the time of the attack, which happened at about 7.50am.
Wearing a gray prison shirt, the girl sat stone-faced during the hearing and left quickly when it was over, as her mother sat at the same table, but without looking at her, the Chicago Tribune reported.
The girl, dressed in a gray jail shirt, sat stone-faced during much of the hearing and jumped up quickly and walked out when it was over.
Just after the stabbing, the 14-year-old had called her mother and claimed that she had been woken by her sister's screams, and walked in to see a man stabbing her, assistant state attorney Claudia Kasten said.
When police told the teenager they had recovered a strand of hair, believed to belong to the killer, she changed her story, Ms Kasten said.
'There was evidence of trauma, and while multiple stab wounds were evident, I will defer to the coroner's office. As to motive, I don't want to comment at this point,' Mundelein police chief Eric Guenther told NBC Chicago.
Unexpected: Neighbors were shocked to hear of the attack that happened just before 8am on Tuesday
He added that officers had been called to the home before, 'but nothing pertains to an incident like this.'
The family were members of the St John Lutheran Church and the victim attended the St John Lutheran school in Libertyville, where grief counselors were on hand Wednesday to help her friends.
Neighbors of the family said there were shocked to learn of the stabbing, and had not heard any commotion on Tuesday morning.
'I didn't even know something was going on. If [detectives] hadn't knocked on the door, I wouldn't have come outside until the mail came,' Verona DaCosta told the Chicago Tribune
.
source: DailyMail
The 11-year-old victim, who not been named, had more than 30 stab wounds across her neck, chest and arms, and three slashes to her face.
The teenage suspect initially claimed a stranger had broken in, but she allegedly confessed after police revealed they had found a strand of the killer's hair in the victim's hand.
Crime scene: An 11-year-old girl was found stabbed to death in her bedroom in this Mundelein, Chicago home
At a hearing today, the girls' mother wept as prosecutors claimed that the older girl had set her alarm early and made her attack while her little sister was still in bed in their Mundelein home.
Using a kitchen knife, the teenager is said to have stabbed her half-sister 39 times while yelling that the younger girl didn't appreciate everything that she did for her.
The older girl said she had made dinner six times that week and that her sister made her mad after hitting her the night before, the Chicago Sun Times reported.
Their mother was out of the home at the time of the attack, which happened at about 7.50am.
Wearing a gray prison shirt, the girl sat stone-faced during the hearing and left quickly when it was over, as her mother sat at the same table, but without looking at her, the Chicago Tribune reported.
The girl, dressed in a gray jail shirt, sat stone-faced during much of the hearing and jumped up quickly and walked out when it was over.
Just after the stabbing, the 14-year-old had called her mother and claimed that she had been woken by her sister's screams, and walked in to see a man stabbing her, assistant state attorney Claudia Kasten said.
When police told the teenager they had recovered a strand of hair, believed to belong to the killer, she changed her story, Ms Kasten said.
'There was evidence of trauma, and while multiple stab wounds were evident, I will defer to the coroner's office. As to motive, I don't want to comment at this point,' Mundelein police chief Eric Guenther told NBC Chicago.
Unexpected: Neighbors were shocked to hear of the attack that happened just before 8am on Tuesday
He added that officers had been called to the home before, 'but nothing pertains to an incident like this.'
The family were members of the St John Lutheran Church and the victim attended the St John Lutheran school in Libertyville, where grief counselors were on hand Wednesday to help her friends.
Neighbors of the family said there were shocked to learn of the stabbing, and had not heard any commotion on Tuesday morning.
'I didn't even know something was going on. If [detectives] hadn't knocked on the door, I wouldn't have come outside until the mail came,' Verona DaCosta told the Chicago Tribune
.
source: DailyMail
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