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A 12-year-old girl is in police custody after stabbing her 9-year-old brother to death while their parents slept upstairs.
- The girl woke her father at the Tulsa residence shortly before midnight Thursday
- She told them that she had stabbed her brother.
- The boy died of his injuries at the hospital shortly after 2:30 a.m. CT
- The girl is in juvenile custody with the Tulsa Police Children’s Crisis Unit leading the investigation.
A 12-year-old girl is in custody in Tulsa, Oklahoma, after stabbing her 9-year-old brother to death, according to police.
Police said the boys’ parents were asleep upstairs at their Tulsa residence shortly before midnight Thursday when the daughter woke them up and told them she had stabbed her brother.
The girl is in juvenile custody with the Tulsa Police Children’s Crisis Unit handling the investigation. She is being held at the Family Center for Juvenile Justice, according to a Tulsa Police news release.
Police responded to the incident Thursday night, according to the news release.
Pictured: The Family Center for Juvenile Justice in Tulsa, where the 12-year-old girl is being held.
When officers arrived, firefighters and paramedics “were already on scene and performing CPR on a 9-year-old male victim,” police said.
The CPR was performed at the River Bank Plaza Apartments complex, according to the New York Post.
The boy “was rushed to the hospital and taken into surgery” but died of his injuries shortly after 2:30 a.m. CT, police said.
None of the children have been identified by authorities.
This is the second homicide in the city of Tulsa this year, the department said.
Tulsa Police Department Chief Franklin tweeted: “All homicides are tragic, but the second homicide of 2023 in Tulsa shows a definite societal problem. The question is, how does society deal with a child who kills another child?’
Police have not revealed the motive for the murder, saying it will be up to the court to discover the intent.
“Obviously we did some interviews, but the interviews with a 12-year-old boy are very preliminary,” Capt. Richard Meulenberg of the Tulsa Police Department told Fox 23. It will be a long and convoluted process that will be extremely exhausting for everyone involved in this.’