The 9-year-old girl accused of killing her best friend claims her teen brother egged her on moments before she jammed a knife into her pal's chest
Alison Gendar:
As 11-year-old Queen Washington lay dying in a hallway, the youngest murder suspect in city memory ran barefoot to a neighbor's home and said her brother had goaded her into the attack, the witnesses and sources said.
"Oh, you're going to sit there and go for that?" her 15-year-old brother teased as she and Queen fought over a rubber ball inside a Brooklyn apartment, the girl told neighbor Thomas Davis.
Cops were investigating what role - if any - the girl's brother had in the killing, police sources said.
The baby-faced suspect appeared briefly yesterday in Family Court, rather than Criminal Court, because of her age.
Standing at a defense table, she gave her name and said she was 9 before getting a hug from her mother.
"Oh, my baby," her mom said before the arraignment on manslaughter charges was put off until tomorrow.
"I love you."
Just before the hearing, the mother's cousin and other supporters repeatedly laughed loudly outside the courtroom. The mother remained somber.
Queen's grieving family angrily questioned how the older and stronger boy could have done nothing to prevent the stabbing inside the Linden Houses in East New York. "The boy was there; the boy was old enough to stop it," said Sharon Washington, the slain girl's aunt.
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posted by Adam Lawson @ 12:59 PM
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Completely unrelated maybe, but anyway...
For some reason, reading this brought back three separate memories from two (fairly) recent driving trips across and around the US.
The first was in Vicksburg, Mississippi, where I visited a laundromat because I needed to wash my clothes. The only other people there at the time were black. And everything about them -- their speech and vocabulary, what they talked about, how they interacted with and treated their children -- made me think...These people are caught in a time warp -- they are not part of the 21st century.
The second was in Chicago, where I must've made a wrong turn leaving the downtown area near the Sears Tower, Field Museum, Shedd Aquarium, and Soldier Field. I found myself right in the middle of a rather scary looking, apparently all black neighborhood. And I thought: I am not in America anymore.
The last memory is of visiting Springfield, Illinois (to see Lincoln's Tomb), which is not a very big city, and seeing that it, too, seemed to have a depressing, mostly black ghetto area.
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