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White Pine, Tennessee (CNN)A little girl killed, allegedly because of a puppy.

 

That's what Jefferson County, Tennessee, Sheriff G.W. "Bud" McCoig said led to the Saturday death of 8-year-old MaKayla "BooBah" Dyer.

 

McCoig told CNN's sister network HLN that an 11-year-old boy asked to see the girl's puppy.

 

When she said no, the boy shot her dead, according to the sheriff.

 

The 11-year-old is being held on a first-degree murder charge in a juvenile detention center. The superintendent of that facility, Richard Bean, said that the boy -- the youngest ever held there on a murder charge that he knows of over his 44-year career -- is being held in a regular "pod" that holds up to 16 other juveniles who are between the ages of 12 and 17.

 

Bean described the boy as "very tiny," weighing about 55 pounds.

 

"It is the most pitiful case on both sides," Bean said.

 

Jefferson County District Attorney James Dunn told CNN his office will determine whether it believes the boy should be tried as an adult, acknowledging that there would be a "heavy burden" to convince a judge to transfer the case out of juvenile court.

 

"We don't have situations like this," the prosecutor said. "... So it is very difficult."

 

The public defender in the case, Edward Miller, told CNN affiliate WATE that "the court has ordered my client detained until (an October 28) hearing." He did not offer more comments beyond that.

 

According to her obituary, MaKayla died just three weeks removed from her 8th birthday.

 

Her death shook up many in White Pine, a small town of just over 2,000 people located 40 miles east of Knoxville.

"My heart is aching because a little girl lost her life really young," Chasity Arwood, a neighbor of both the victim and the accused, told WATE. "My heart is aching, too, because a little boy is having to go through what he's having to go through."

 

The slain girl's mother, Latasha Dyer, choked back tears as she talked to the same news station.

 

"I want her back home, I want her back in my arms," she said. "This is not fair."

 

Hundreds attended a visitation for her Wednesday evening in Maynardville, where songs from the Disney hit movie "Frozen" were played -- just like MaKayla would have liked.

 

"She was a lovable, little, adorable and typical 8-year old girl that enjoyed life and loved everybody," great-uncle Kenneth Norton told CNN. " She didn't know (any) strangers ... and anytime that you were doing anything ... she wanted to be a part of it."

 

 

CNN's Greg Botelho reported and wrote from Atlanta, and CNN's Victor Blackwell reported from Tennessee. CNN's Gigi Mann, Jean Casarez and Cortney Peltz, from CNN's sister network HLN, contributed to this report.

 

Source: CNN

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The gun, where did he get the gun from?? Why aren't they saying that?

 

^^^

 

But America doesn't have poor gun control policies or anything! It's not like it's so easy to get a gun that people who would be irresponsible enough to leave it somewhere where a child could get easy access to it would be able to-- oh, wait. 

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"My heart is aching, too, because a little boy is having to go through what he's having to go through."

 

Are u fucking kidding me?? Stop trying to garner pity for a kid that was dumb enough to grab a gun and use it just bc his greedy lil ass didn't get what he wanted. Miss me with that apologist shit, he knew exactly what he was doing.

 

Trash.

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i was just telling people about this the other day

 

when will america learn honestly

 

Probably never. Conservatives/Rednecks are too paranoid about the government taking over to give up their guns. That's all I ever hear Fox News idiots say when this subject comes up. Oh and the gun lobby isn't going away either. Good luck getting rid of guns as long as they are around. The issue really isn't as simple as some people think it is.

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We can't fix the gun laws because of the constitution you liberal dumb asses.

 

The right of the people to bear arms. The 2nd amendment.

Amendments aren't set in stone genius....it can be amended or repealed completely by making another amendment as long as it satisfy certain conditions. Prohibition was the 18th amendment and its repeal was the 21st.
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We can't fix the gun laws because of the constitution you liberal dumb asses.

 

The right of the people to bear arms. The 2nd amendment.

>>>>>>isnt aware Amendments can be amended or repealed completely 

 

>>>>>>calls other people (smarter ones who are aware of it) "dumb asses"

 

lol idiot

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