13-Year-Old Admitted He Stabbed Brother, Says He Prefers Jail Over Car Ride

Zachary Stieber
By Zachary Stieber
July 8, 2019US News
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13-Year-Old Admitted He Stabbed Brother, Says He Prefers Jail Over Car Ride
A police car in a file photo. (Mira Oberman/AFP/Getty Images)

Officials in Florida said that a 13-year-old boy admitted to stabbing his 15-year-old brother.

The incident took place around 1 p.m. in Crestview on July 6.

Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office deputies said the younger brother stabbed the 15-year-old multiple times.

Deputies arrived at the scene to find the victim bleeding and the suspect, Alex Stewart, in the front seat, reported WJHG.

Deputies said they arrested the younger brother, who told them: “I stabbed him, and I don’t care about going back to jail. I’d rather be in jail than eight hours in the car with him.”

His older brother kept “picking on him and grabbing him,” the younger brother said, prompting him to warn his sibling to stop, reported WEAR. That’s when the younger teen “pulled out his Sheffield multi-tool knife and stabbed him an unknown amount of times inside the car.”

The 13-year-old was charged with aggravated battery.

The brothers were reportedly residents of Clarksville, Tennessee, reported NWF Daily.

It wasn’t clear where the boy’s parents were during the stabbing.

The victim received treatment for non-life-threatening injuries. The wounds were closed with butterfly bandages.

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The directions from Crestview, Florida to Clarksville, Tennessee. According to Google Maps, the trip would take about seven hours and 15 minutes. The distance was listed as 465 miles. (Google Maps)

Teen Given 25 Years in Custody for Friend’s Fatal Stabbing

FORT WORTH, Texas—A 14-year-old girl has been ordered to spend 25 years in state custody after a Texas jury found her delinquent in the fatal stabbing of her best friend.

The sentencing came Friday, one day after a Tarrant County jury returned its verdict in Fort Worth in the May 29 killing of 14-year-old Nylah Lightfoot.

She could have been assessed anything from probation to 40 years in state custody. A judge will determine whether to move the girl to an adult prison at age 19. Her name has not been released because of her age.

Prosecutors say the girl stabbed Nylah in the neck and chest after a fight at an apartment complex in Fort Worth. The girl was 13 at the time of the attack.

Crime Statistics

Crime declined in the first half of 2018 compared to the first half of 2017, the FBI said in February. Preliminary statistics show nearly all offenses in the violent crime category declined.

Robbery offenses decreased 12.5 percent, murder and nonnegligent manslaughter offenses decreased 6.7 percent, and aggravated assault offenses declined 2 percent, the agency said. Rapes, however, increased by 0.6 percent. When comparing data from the first six months of 2018 with the first six months of 2017, all property crime categories showed a decrease. Burglaries were down 12.7 percent, larceny-thefts decreased 6.3 percent, and motor vehicle thefts declined 3.3 percent.

The full 2018 crime report will be released later this year.

The FBI previously said that both violent crime and property crime decreased in 2017, the last year that full statistics are available for, compared to 2016. Overall violent crime decreased 0.2 percent from 2016 to 2017, while property crime decreased 3 percent during that time, the agency said in September 2018, releasing data from the previous year.

“There were more than 1.2 million violent crimes reported to UCR nationwide in 2017. There was a 0.7 percent decrease in murders and a 4 percent decrease in robberies from 2016 to 2017. Aggravated assaults increased by 1 percent in 2017. The FBI began collecting data solely on an updated rape definition last year, and 135,755 rapes were reported to law enforcement in 2017,” the FBI stated.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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