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A 5-year-old boy in California is accused of stabbing his twin brother to death.
Deputies from the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office responded to a call of a stabbing at the 200 block of Tucker Road in Scotts Valley, California, on Wednesday just before 4:00 pm, the sheriff’s office said in astatementThursday.
Upon their arrival, the officers learned that the brothers had been fighting and that one of them grabbed a small kitchen knife and stabbed his twin during the encounter. The 5-year-old received “life-saving efforts” from deputies and first responders. He was later taken to a hospital, where he died.
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California’s Penal Code Section 26lists the cases in which individuals are “not capable of committing crimes.” One of those is “children under the age of 14, in the absence of clear proof that at the time of committing the act charged against them, they knew its wrongfulness.”
Under California Welfare and Institutions Code 602, “any minor who is under 12 years of age” when they are alleged to have committed offenses that include murder is “within the jurisdiction of the juvenile court.”
The Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office confirmed to PEOPLE that no additional information would be released at this time and shared in a statement on the release that they “are heartbroken for the family of these two young children and share in their grief.” Their release also asked for the family to be given privacy “during this difficult time.”
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source: people.com
