A 10-year-old Florida girl has been arrested on murder charges for allegedly shooting dead a neighbor who was fighting her mother on Memorial Day, police said.
The child, who has not yet been publicly named, was heard shouting, “She shouldn’t have hit my mama,” after firing the deadly shot that killed 41-year-old Lashun Rodgers at the Jernigan Gardens Apartments in Orlando on May 30.
The 10-year-old was taken into custody Tuesday, reported ClickOrlando. She now faces a second-degree murder charge, which is punishable by up to life in prison.
The Orange-Osceola State Attorney’s Office released a statement after the arrest, saying that “no charging decision has been made” in what State Attorney Monique Worrell described as “the most tragic case” in her 22-year career.
