14 DAY TRIAL // Residents of Valley Springs are in shock after police have arrested a 12-year-old boy in the murder of his 8-year-old sister.
According to CBS13, all the community scrambled to find the culprit after the young boy told police that sister Leila Fowler was killed by an intruder.
As mentioned before, he was arrested for fatally stabbing her on Sunday. If he is guilty and gets convicted, he is facing jail time until the time he is 25 years old.
I wrote about Fowler last month, when police in the Cavaleras county town were searching homes in the area, while the community was living in fear. At the time, police thought that she had surprised the intruder, who then stabbed her.
“I was locking my bedroom door,” one neighbor describes.
“We were walking in between a store and we saw a guy, long gray hair, and we reported him to the CHP because he fit the description,” resident Jericho Kraigbum adds.
There is no information about who Fowler's brother has described in his statement to authorities. His mother gave an interview on Saturday asking for the police to find whoever killed his daughter, one day before her son was arrested.
However, some neighbors believe that his parents knew about him committing the crime. Priscilla Rodriquez and her husband have been fighting for custody lately.