14-year-old resident of Texas was sentenced to 25 years imprisonment for murder in 2018 best friend during a quarrel.
Niall Lightfoot, who was 13, died in a hospital in Fort worth on may 29, 2018 once her friend (name withheld because of a minority) during the quarrel stabbed her in the neck and chest.
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According to the defendant, with Niloy they met in school and became friends. They have each other as sisters, but still fought a lot.
On that fateful evening at home Neily was a pool party, where high school girls got in a fight over clothes borrowed from each other. The defendant slammed the door, not wanting to stay the night at a friends, and went to his room.
According to condemned, Niall came to her at night (the girls were roommates), they again quarreled and came to blows at the entrance to the apartment of the accused. Then, according to Schoolgirls, she went home and came out with a kitchen knife.
«I stabbed her and made the biggest mistake of your life, girl quotes local newspaper Star-Telegram. I didn’t realize at the time. Once I realized what happened, I ran for the towels and tried to stop the blood.»
At this time, from the apartment her mother came out and saw everything.
According to Schoolgirls, she tried to commit suicide after the death Nily, but relatives kept her from doing so.
Despite her claims that the stabbing of a friend was accidental, prosecutors claim the opposite.
«She had the intention. She went in and came out with a knife. She controlled the situation,» said district attorney Tarrant Jim Hudson.
The school faced up to 40 years in prison, but the jury sentenced her to 25 years in prison. To her majority she will be in the centre of the juvenile justice system of Texas.
