A 12-year-old girl is currently in Police custody in Tulsa, Oklahoma, after stabbing her 9-year-old brother to death.
Police said the children’s parent was asleep upstairs at their Tulsa residence shortly before midnight on Thursday, 5 January, when the daughter woke them and said that she had stabbed her brother.
Officers responded to the stabbing late Thursday night, according to a Tulsa Police news release.
When officers arrived, paramedics and firefighters “were already on scene and performing CPR to a 9-year-old male victim,” Police said.
The boy “was rushed to the hospital and taken into surgery,” but succumbed to his injuries shortly after 2:30 a.m. CT, according to Police.
The 12-year-old suspect was taken into custody and is being held at the Family Center for Juvenile Justice, said the news release. Neither child has been identified by authorities.
The Tulsa Police Department Child Crisis Unit is handling the stabbing investigation.
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 2nd homicide of 2023 in Tulsa shows a definitive societal problem.
“The question is, how does society address a child killing another child?”
Police have not revealed a motive for the killing, stating it will be the court’s burden to uncover intent.
“Obviously we did some interviews, but interviews with a 12-year-old are very preliminary,” Captain Richard Meulenberg from the Tulsa Police Department told Fox 23.
“This, unfortunately, has no easy end or easy path, this is going to be a long, convoluted process that’s going to be extremely taxing on everyone involved in this.”
