a little 12-year-old shot her mom in the head. she and her 13-year-old boyfriend are charged with capital murder, but the max they can get is 40 years if convicted. this sure isn't the 'Wonder Years' folks. what were you doing at age 12?
and a quote from her page...I am happily married to a great guy and living in Texas. I work as an office manager for a home healthcare agency and love every minute of it. I have a wonderful daughter that I just love to death, a stepdaughter, stepson and 3 great grandkids. I miss all my friends in Ohio but will be back soon for a visit.........If ya wanna know more just ask.
the husband IDed the shooters, and later died in hospital.
GARLAND - Not even in high school yet, a 12-year-old girl and 13-year-old boy were both taken into custody after a 46-year-old mother was found shot to death inside a Garland home.
The two children were both identified by the victim's husband, 48-year-old Alan Nevil, as he lay with a gunshot wound in front of the home in the 600 block of Rilla Street. Police said Nevil was able to give them some information about the shooting.
"We've taken two people into custody, an early teen male and a female," said Joe Harn, Garland Police Department.
Police said they aren't sure about the relationships, but confirmed that the 13-year-old boy is the young girl's boyfriend.
"They had run away," said a neighbor. "... She had run away last month sometime."
Juan Garcia, a neighbor, said he and Mr. Nevil grew grew up together.
"He was a nice person," he said. "He used to cut my yard, I would cut his [and] watch the house together."
He said the girl taken into custody was sweet.
If charged, the suspects will likely be charged as juveniles.
DALLAS (AP) — A 13-year-old boy and his 12-year-old girlfriend will soon face capital murder charges in a Dallas-area double-shooting after the second victim died, authorities said Friday.
Alan Nevil, 48, died Thursday night from wounds he suffered in an Aug. 17 attack that also killed his wife, Darlene Nevil, 46, Garland police spokesman Joe Harn said.
Alan Nevil was found bleeding on a neighbor's front yard. He told police who shot him and authorities arrested the 13-year-old boy and 12-year-old girl within a quarter of a mile from the house, Harn said.
The children initially were charged with murder and aggravated assault in the shooting. Garland police said Friday in a statement they were working with the Dallas County District Attorney's office to upgrade those charges to capital murder.
For adults, the maximum sentence range is life in prison or death, in a capital murder case. But for juveniles, the maximum penalty is 40 years confinement in a Texas Youth Commission facility with a possible transfer to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, said Durrand Hill, the head prosecutor in Dallas County's juvenile division.
At age 19, a juvenile could also be released from TYC on adult parole if they've been rehabilitated, he said.
"Homicide cases make up a very small percentage, less than 1 percent of the cases we prosecute in juvenile court," Hill said. "We're not seeking certification (as an adult) on this case, the law would not allow it."
A child must be at least 14 years old to stand trial as an adult, said Hill.
Hill said he anticipated that the upgraded capital murder charges against the youths would "happen very quickly," though he declined to speak in specifics about their case.
Police have declined to identify the children or reveal their relationship to the Nevils because they are minors.
They remain in custody at the Dallas County Juvenile Detention Center.
"They deserve everything they've got coming," said Juan Garcia Jr., the Nevils' neighbor and longtime friend. "Kids nowadays, they don't think twice."
Confident that Alan Nevil would awaken from his coma and fully recover, Garcia said he and his wife were just talking about how they could help him once he returned home when they learned that he had died.
"That was a shock," Garcia said Friday. "It was a real blow to everybody."
i attached Facebook photo of Mom and daughter here. it will probably be taken down very soon. caption "me and Holly".
from Dallas Morning News:
More than two weeks after Darlene Nevil was shot and killed in her Garland home, her body rests in a funeral home with no services scheduled. Her husband, Alan, died Thursday after being in a coma from a gunshot wound to the neck.
Across the county, her 12-year-old daughter sits in a juvenile detention center, accused in the deaths of her mom and stepdad. The girl's only guardian is a court-appointed attorney.
How it came to this, no one can really say.
On Friday, the charges against the 12-year-old girl and her 13-year-old boyfriend were upgraded from murder and aggravated assault to capital murder, which could send them to prison for 40 years, the maximum sentence for juveniles. The murder charges were upgraded because the crime now involves multiple slayings.
The crime has shocked Darlene Nevil's closest friends. It's left them shaken, confused and not wanting to believe what has happened.
"I'm having a really hard time with this," said Robin Schneider, who had been best friends with Darlene Nevil since they met 26 years ago in Ohio, where the two grew up. "I have a 15-year-old daughter, and fathoming her harming me is just ridiculous."
Schneider cannot get one question off her mind: How could someone so young stand accused of something so heinous?
Garland police aren't saying much about the killings. Because the suspects are minors, police have not identified them and decline to reveal their relationship to the victims. But family and friends said that the girl is Darlene Nevil's daughter and the boy is the daughter's boyfriend. The Dallas Morning News does not identify juveniles accused of crimes.
Court records, the girl's pages on social networking sites, and interviews with Darlene Nevil's friends suggest that the mother and daughter had lives that were often troubled. They shared a rocky relationship, and both were sometimes estranged from other family members.
'The biggest mistake'
Just as school was set to begin last year, Darlene Nevil's only child called her from her father's house in Ohio.
The girl told her mom that her relationship with him had soured, according to Schneider. He tried to control her, she told her mom, and he kept her from calling friends and family. She wanted to live with her mother.
So last August, Darlene Nevil went to Ohio, got parental custody and moved her to Garland. She enrolled in school there and met a boy who would become her boyfriend. The girl wrote about him on MySpace as if they were a young couple madly in love.
"i love him and i would give the world to him if he asked for it," she wrote about the boy on MySpace. "the day we met i knew i had to have him. he is the best boyfriend i'v ever had in my life." HOW MANY BOYFRIENDS HAS THE 12-YEAR-OLD HAD?
After the last school year ended, something changed. The girl was expected to see her dad in Ohio over the summer, but she didn't go. About that time, she posted her feelings about her dad in a letter addressed to him on MySpace.
"im sorry to say this but, i cant believe i loved yew at one point in ma life," she wrote. "when i was four, i remember how yew were so mean to mommy and yew made her cry."
She signed the letter, "the biggest mistake of your life."
Later that month, she went on vacation to South Carolina with her mother and stepfather. Photos that Darlene Nevil later posted on Facebook show mother and daughter smiling next to a waterfall in Greenville.
But a few weeks later, she was gone. Police said that the girl ran away from her Garland home in July. They haven't said how long she was gone or where she went.
Schneider said Darlene Nevil had mentioned her daughter had previously threatened to run away because she thought her mom was too strict.
"It seemed like typical teenage stuff," Schneider said.
A day before Darlene Nevil was killed, she called Schneider to catch up on things and talk about their daughters. Her daughter had a boyfriend now, she told Schneider.
"She said he wasn't a bad kid," Schneider said.
Information about the 13-year-old boy was slim. No one answered the door at an address listed for the boy, and a phone number for him appeared to be incorrect. Both he and the girl have court-appointed attorneys. Public defender Charles Martin, who is representing the girl, said he had just gotten the case this week and couldn't comment because he hadn't had a chance to speak to her. The name of the boy's attorney was not available.
'She followed her heart'
Darlene Nevil lived in Ohio until about four years ago. She left behind friends whom she called periodically, but she hadn't spoken to her sister in Ohio in years. It's still unknown when Darlene Nevil will be laid to rest because the funeral home had no success in reaching a blood relative in Ohio while her husband was in a coma.
Darlene Nevil's first marriage ended in divorce in March 2006. That November, she married Alan Nevil, whom she had met in an online chat room about music. The had been chatting from a thousand miles away, but they instantly connected, said Melody Yates, who met both of them in the chat room.
"They flirted and then they met" in person, Yates said. "It was true love right off the bat."
After they married, , she got a job as an office manager at a Garland health care agency. Soon, the couple moved into Alan Nevil's childhood home, a few miles from Lake Ray Hubbard.
"She followed her heart," Schneider said. "She was happy."
OMG! At 12 yrs. old I was either in dance class or on the back of a horse. I had no interest in boys and even if I did have an interest there is no way in hell I would have been allowed to pursue it. This is an awful story.
now we have an 11-year-old who murdered a 2-year-old.
i don't think at 11 they have the maturity to babysit. well, some may. this was brutal, inexplicable. one report says they CAN charge her as an adult, another says they cannot. and there are questions here about a weapon and whether someone else was supposed to be watching the baby.
the maximum sentence allowed for someone under the age of 13 charged with murder is two years in a juvenile justice facility.
Baby sitter, 11, charged with murder
Prosecutors investigate death of 2-year-old
Wednesday, 22 Sep 2010
SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. (AP) - Prosecutors in Georgia are investigating the case of an 11-year-old baby sitter being held on warrants charging her with felony murder and child cruelty in the death of a 2-year-old girl.
Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard must determine the charges to be filed against the baby sitter in the death of Zyda White. A spokeswoman says Howard will determine the appropriate charges after he sees a full report. Under Georgia law, the sitter can't be prosecuted as an adult.SANDY SPRINGS, GA -- It is a story that is hard to explain. An 11-year old girl is charged with a crime that could penalize her as if she were an adult. The charge is murder. Sandy Springs Police say the girl, who is not being identified, killed a two year old girl she was babysitting.
Ashlea Collier is the two year olds mother. She said her daughter Zeyda White was a busy-body. The girl's father, Tony White, said Zeyda was a mini version of himself. Zeyda's grandmother simply said she was an angel.
It is hard to justify the loss of a life so young. It's harder when it is another child who is accused of murdering her. "I've never seen a child do that to another child so I don't have any justification," said Gloria Elliott, the two year olds grandmother. "I'm just numb."
Tony White fought to say the words, "I loved her with all my heart". He called Zeyda's death heartbreaking. "I don't understand how anybody could do anything like that, let alone an 11 year old girl", he said.>
On Saturday night, Sandy Springs police were called to an apartment in the Dunwoody Pointe apartment complex where Zeyda was with the 11-year old babysitter. Sandy Springs Police Lt. Steve Rose said officers received a 911 call from Zeyda's mother. The two year old was unresponsive and transported to the hospital where she died shortly after midnight.
Lt. Rose said the baby sitter told police Zeyda fell from a bed. But an autopsy on Sunday found a head wound that didn't make sense with that description. "The autopsy showed there was blunt force trauma to the head," Lt. Rose said. "That indicates a severe head injury."
Ashley Collier said she wants 11-year old baby sitter, a daughter of a co-worker, to face the harshest penalty. "I feel like that girl should do life, I feel like that girl should not have freedom," she said. "I can't go pick up my daughter and tell her I love her. My daughter can't even grow up to life the life she wanted to."
Police have charged the 11 year old as an adult even though she is only 11. A spokesperson for the Fulton County District Attorney's Office said "Our office is awaiting a full report from the Sandy Springs Police Department." Yvette Brown said. "Upon receipt of that report, we will conduct our own investigation and make a decision regarding the appropriate charges."
Sandy Springs Police Lt. Steve Rose said the toddler died of blunt force trauma Saturday. The baby sitter is being held at a juvenile detention center while prosecutors decide how to proceed.
this is not adding up...was the babysitter's mother present the entire time? if so, wasn't she the responsible adult?
where was she when this baby was being beaten to death??
The babysitter's mom says she performed CPR, and the girl was rushed to the hospital. Zyda would die that night. An autopsy would soon reveal that her injuries were far more severe than a simple fall from a bed. Zyda had suffered blunt-force trauma to the head, torso and butt.
i will not be surprised if babysitter's mother is charged with something. several possibilities come to mind.
(CBS) An evening at work for an Atlanta-area mother turned tragic after she left her two-year-old daughter at the apartment of a co-worker.
Ashlea Collier says she left the toddler, Zeyda White, at the Sandy Springs, Ga. apartment Saturday night while Collier went to work.
The co-worker, Kiyosha Bell, admitted to CBS affiliate WGCL in Atlanta that she wasn't home that night and had left her 11-year-old daughter alone to babysit for Zyda.
When Collier went to pick her daughter up, police say, Zeyda was unconscious. She died later at a hospital.
The sitter, whose name isn't being released due to her age, told authorities Zeyda had fallen off the bed.
But the coroner ruled that her death was the result of blunt force trauma.
This week, the sitter was charged as a juvenile with felony murder and cruelty to children.
I have a problem with that 2 yr. sentence for juveniles. That little bitch needs to do some serious time. At 11, one knows the difference between right & wrong.
another kid shoots his mom.
10TV.com
HOLMESVILLE, Ohio — A 10-year-old boy was in custody on Monday after the Holmes County sheriff said he told a neighbor that he fatally shot his mother.
Sheriff Tim Zimmerly said Deborah L. McVay, 46, was found dead in the living room of her Big Prairie home on Sunday night.
A neighbor called the sheriff's office and said that McVay's son came to her home and said he shot his mother.
The boy, whose name was not immediately released, was being held in Richland County Juvenile Detention and was expected to appear in court on Monday.
Big Prairie is midway between Cleveland and Columbus.
A judge in Dallas has set a Feb. 14 trial date for a 13-year-old boy charged with killing a Garland couple.
Judge William A. Mazur Jr. on Tuesday set the juvenile capital murder trial date for the boy. His 12-year-old girlfriend is also charged with juvenile capital murder over the shootings that led to the deaths of 46-year-old Darlene Nevil and her 48-year-old husband, Alan Nevil.
Garland police say the wife died the day of the Aug. 17 attacks. Her husband died Sept. 2.
The girl faces trial Jan. 24. Both children remain in juvenile custody.
Conviction carries a potential 40-year sentence, with the juveniles having to serve at least 10 years.
The Dallas Morning News reported that the children have not appeared in court during the pretrial process.
added 2/3/11
A 13-year-old Garland boy accused with his girlfriend of killing her mother and stepfather reached a plea agreement with Dallas County prosecutors this week.
Because details of the agreement were not released by the court or made available by the district attorney’s office, the exact number of years in the sentence was unclear. But the charge of capital murder was unchanged, police said, so the boy will serve at least 10 years behind bars. He was facing a maximum sentence of 40 years. His trial in the Aug. 17, 2010, slayings of Alan and Darlene Nevil was scheduled to begin next Monday.
Judge William A. “Bill” Mazur approved the agreement Monday in the 304th Juvenile District Court with attorneys, family members and court personnel present. The Nevil family declined to comment on the sentence.
The juvenile district attorney did not return phone or e-mail messages, and the boy’s public defender offered little detail.
“It’s our office policy not to comment on juvenile cases or to matters pertaining to juvenile offenders,” wrote Lynn Richardson, Dallas County chief public defender.
The Dallas Morning News does not name juveniles convicted of crimes.
The boy spent most of the last six months at the Henry Wade Juvenile Justice Center in Dallas, where the average stay is 17 days. He was discharged to the Texas Youth Commission, to spend six weeks in an evaluation facility, probably the McLennan County State Juvenile Correctional Facility in Mart, Texas. At age 19, he will be transferred into the adult system.
The girl, who turned 13 last month, was to go to trial Jan. 24. But the state was granted an extension, and her case was reset to late March over the objection of her attorney, Charles Martin. Garland police believe her role in the murders may be outlined in the boy’s plea agreement.
Police are adamant that both youths deserve the capital murder charges, though only one may have done the shooting.
BURLINGTON, Colo. -- A 12-year-old boy has been taken into custody in connection with the fatal shooting of his mother and father, and wounding of two siblings in the small eastern Colorado town of Burlington, authorities announced Wednesday.
Officers responded to a home in the 700 block of Lowell Tuesday evening after the 12-year-old called 911 to report the shooting, the Colorado Bureau of Investigations said.
Charles Long, 50, and his wife, Marilyn, 51, were found dead inside. Two of their children, a 5-year-old girl and 9-year-old boy had also been shot.
They were taken to Children’s Hospital in Denver with critical injuries, CBI assistant director Steve Johnson said.
The events leading up to the shooting remain under investigation.
“There are no other suspects at this time,” Johnson said. “We do not think there is any further risk to the community.”
Johnson said the case has been referred to the local District Attorney’s office for the filing of formal charges. The 12-year-old name was not released.
“We continue to hope for the speedy recoveries of the two children in the hospital and share in the sorrow that the Burlington community is feeling right now,” Johnson said.
Burlington, located just a few miles from the Kansas state line, has a population of about 3,700.
The Colorado Bureau of Investigation, Burlington Police, Kit Carson County Sheriff's Office and District Attorney's office are investigating the case.
A 12-year-old devout Christian boy has been arrested after allegedly shooting dead his parents and leaving his two younger siblings fighting for life.
Regular church-goers Charles Long and his wife Marilyn were found dead on Tuesday night after their son called 911 to say there had been a shooting at his home in Burlington in eastern Colorado, near the Kansas border.
When police arrived they found the dead bodies of the Long parents, and their two critically injured children, a nine-year-old boy and a five-year-old girl.
The two children were airlifted to a hospital in Denver where they remain in 'dire' condition, police said.
The 12-year-old boy, who has not been named, was unhurt.
Neighbours said the Long children were home-schooled and the family was deeply religious, attending one neighbourhood church on Saturdays and another on Sundays.
The 12-year-old son handed out church bulletins and greeted visitors before Sunday service, worked with audio and video equipment, ran Powerpoint presentations and helped children learn memory verses.
A police spokesman said that the case has been sent to local prosecutors and that there are no other suspects.
Now the district attorney is set to file formal charges against the young boy, police said.
'We continue to hope for the speedy recoveries of the two children in the hospital and share in the sorrow that the Burlington community is feeling right now,' the spokesman added.
Warrants in the case are currently sealed, and authorities have not yet revealed any possible motive in the horrifying killing.
Family and friends gathered for a candlelight vigil near the family's home last night.
'You'd always see them around town, volunteering for stuff,' said Ronnie Speakman, who was at the vigil with about six other people who said they knew the family.
'He worked for Frito-Lay and you would alway see him stacking chips in the aisle, always a smile on his face,' he added.
‘It's shocking. They're good Christian people. They go to church. As far as I know, they had a happy family. You don't expect this to happen in a small town like this,’ neighbour Josh Schlichenmayer said.
Two blocks away at the Evangelical Free Church, which the family attended, Pastor Ron Lee told more than 100 people at a prayer service that the gathering was meant as an opportunity for prayer and encouragement while members grieve.
Briefed: Steve Johnson, left, Assistant Director of Colorado Bureau of Investigation, and Jim Davis, Executive, briefly talked to the media
Briefed: Steve Johnson, left, Assistant Director of Colorado Bureau of Investigation, and Jim Davis, Executive, briefly talked to the media
'Most of it is confusion,' Lee said.
'I don't understand exactly what's gone on or why. Some of the reports that have come out, I'm not sure I even believe it.'
Lee, church members and friends described the family as longtime residents and active members of the church, with Charles serving as an elder and Marilyn serving as director of the church's children's ministry.
The Longs had seven children, ranging in age from their mid-20s to five. The younger children were home schooled by Marilyn Long.
One church member, rancher Paul Rhoades, 74, said Marilyn Long grew up in Burlington and attended high school with his daughter.
Greg James, an elder at the church, said he visited the family - including older siblings and the children's grandmother - at The Children's Hospital in suburban Denver and visited the children as they recovered in the hospital.
He told the congregation that the family was hopeful the children would recover.
Lee said the boy missed church on Sunday because of a conflict with a school activity but that he called the church to make sure there was a substitute greeter.
'He was pleasant, helpful, a good spirit, a good kid,' Lee said.
'"I'm so shocked. I almost feel like I need to hear from him or one of the children. He's not your typical 12-year-old.'
Lee said there weren't any changes in jobs, housing, or schooling that the family talked about or any outward signs that might give a clue to what happened.
A 16-year-old has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder over the shotgun deaths of his great-grandparents in a tiny farming community where the elderly couple had lived for decades.
The boy, who has not been named, was arrested on Thursday evening following the deaths of Laura Clagett, 82, and her husband Charles, 80, at their home in Hugo.
The town, on the eastern Colorado plains that has a population of 770, is said to be deeply shocked by the killings.
The murder probe began on Wednesday when the Colorado State Patrol was sent to a crash scene outside Hugo and found a pickup truck that had overturned.
The boy was rescued from the vehicle and taken to a Denver hospital 105 miles away where his injuries were described as not life-threatening.
When Lincoln County deputies went to the home of the truck's registered owners to tell them about the accident, they walked into a gruesome scene.
The elderly couple had been shot dead in their bedroom.
Lincoln County Coroner Jennifer Nestor said on Friday that the pair both died from close-range shotgun blasts and may have been dead for three days before their bodies were found, Reuters reports.
Investigators said there are no other suspects involved and found no sign of burglary.
According to the Denver Post, the boy began living with his great-grandparents in September at the start of the school year.
Steve Johnson, the assistant director of the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, said a significant amount of money, thought to be about $12,000, was found in the pickup at the crash scene.
The 15-year-old daughter of an Army soldier found dead in her Braselton home Thursday has been charged with the shooting death of her mother.
1st Sgt. Karen Moore, 42, was a soldier and recruiter with the U.S. Army, Assistant Police Chief Lou Solis of the Braselton Police Department said.
Solis told the AJC that officers dispatched to the home on Sahale Falls Drive about 1:15 Thursday afternoon were met by a neighbor and the victim’s daughter.
“The daughter told us she called the neighbor because she said her mom was not waking up, and the neighbor went over there to assist the daughter,” Solis said.
“When we arrived at the residence, we saw Mrs. Moore on the couch with a single gunshot wound to the back of the head,” he said.
Solis said that the GBI was called in to assist with the investigation, and when the girl’s father, who is also in the Army but stationed in Alabama, arrived at the home, he gave the GBI investigator consent to talk with his daughter.
“This is when we learned that the mother and the daughter had an argument of some sort,” Solis said. “The daughter admitted to shooting the weapon.”
Police also interviewed 17-year-old Christopher Nieves, who Solis described as a “friend” of the victim’s daughter.
“Mr. Nieves told us they just met in January; it’s not a long, drawn-out relationship,” Solis said, adding the the victim’s husband told investigators that he did not know Nieves.
Solis said, however, that Nieves “admitted to us that he had sex with the girl.”
Nevis was arrested and charged with having sex with a minor.
Police said the teen invited a friend over after the shooting. Her 17-year-old friend, Christopher Nieves, was charged with statutory rape.
As for the argument that apparently sparked the shooting, Solis said that the daughter “said that they were arguing and one of the points that was brought up was the friend, Mr. Nieves.”
Solis said that the district attorney will make a decision on whether to charge the daughter as an adult. Until that time, her name is being withheld due to her age. She was charged with murder and taken to a juvenile facility in neighboring Gwinnett County.
Keith Crandall, who lives next door to the Moores, said he was shocked to return home from out of town late Thursday afternoon to find all the police and GBI agents at his neighbor’s home.
He said that in the year since the Moores moved in, he “never saw anything that would even lead us to think that something like this could ever happen.”
“I feel sorry for the family,” said Brian Karr, who lives two doors away from the Moores, who police said have an older son who is also in the military.
“It’s very surprising,” Karr said. “Stuff like that doesn’t happen up here in Braselton.”
Karr said that while he didn’t know the family very well, “they seemed like a very happy family. Never a hint of anything wrong.”
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