{"id":9765,"date":"2015-10-06T06:24:21","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T06:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=9765"},"modified":"2015-10-06T06:24:21","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T06:24:21","slug":"us-boy-11-held-for-shooting-dead-eight-year-old-neighbour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2015\/10\/06\/us-boy-11-held-for-shooting-dead-eight-year-old-neighbour\/","title":{"rendered":"US boy, 11, held for shooting dead eight-year-old neighbour"},"content":{"rendered":"

An 11-year-old boy in the US state of Tennessee has been held on suspicion of shooting dead an eight-year-old neighbour in a row over a puppy.<\/p>\n

The boy has been charged with first-degree murder as a juvenile.<\/p>\n

According to police, he shot the girl on Saturday evening with his father’s shotgun after she refused to let him see her puppy.<\/p>\n

The girl has been identified as McKayla Dyer. Her mother Latasha said that the two children went to the same school.<\/p>\n

“He was making fun of her, calling her names, just being mean to her. He quit for a while and then all of a sudden yesterday he shot her,” Ms Dyer told WATE-TV.<\/p>\n

“I want her back in my arms,” she said.<\/p>\n

Neighbour Chastity Arwood told WBIR News that she heard the shot ring out and saw McKayla lying on the grass.<\/p>\n

“Trying to comfort her mama and her aunt and her grandma and her grandpa and her sister and her brother was the hardest thing I ever had to do,” Ms Arwood said.<\/p>\n

The boy is scheduled to appear in court again on 28 October.<\/p>\n

The Gun Violence Archive, a not-for-profit organisation that compiles data on gun violence in the US, says 559 children <\/a>aged 11 or under have been killed or injured in the United States in gun violence so far this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An 11-year-old boy in the US state of Tennessee has been held on suspicion of shooting dead an eight-year-old neighbour in a row over a puppy. The boy has been charged with first-degree murder as a juvenile. According to police, he shot the girl on Saturday evening with his father’s shotgun after she refused to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}