12-year-old Killer

In Detroit a jury has found a 13-year-old boy guilty of murder, armed robbery, felony armed robbery and curfew violation. The little boy Demarco Harris was 12 when he attempted to rob 24-year-old Trisha Babcock. She was sitting in her car when Harris attempted to rob her at gun point when he shot her in the chest.

This was Harris' second trial the first one in January ended in a hung jury. This time he has been found guilty. The prosecutor has said that they do not know what type of sentencing they will be asking for. They have two options they can ask for him to be sentenced as a juvenile or they can try him as an adult. They said they will not announce that until they go in for sentencing.

Babcock's dad was at the trial and stated that he, "cried like a baby." He also stated, "everyone knew he was guilty." He said that, "he feels like the best thing would be a life for a life, but that they do not have the death sentence in Detroit."

What I do not understand is what this 12-year-old was thinking? He was only 12 when he murdered a 24 year old women. Why was he trying to rob someone and where was his parents?

I feel that he must have something wrong with him mentally to be thinking of murder at the age of 12. Hopefully he will get the help that he needs while spending his life in prison. At least that is what I feel that he should have is life in prison without the possibility of parole.

(I was completely shocked when I Googled 12-year-old killer it brought up a ton of them so the second two websites that I pasted to this one are of other stories about killer kids. The first one will take you to the web site for this story.)