15-y-o girl charged with killing brother

On Tuesday afternoon, the west Kingston police laid charges against the 15-year-old girl who has been accused of killing her six-year-old brother, Howard Johnson Jr, at their home on Nelson Street in Jones Town, Kingston 12.

The girl was charged with murder after being questioned by the police in the presence of her attorney. She is scheduled to be brought before the court tomorrow.

It is alleged that on the afternoon of August 2, the girl took her little brother to the back of their home to look for a dog under the house.

When he bent down, she reportedly stabbed him in the back of the neck with a knife she had hidden in her blouse. The boy reportedly ran from the yard but his sister dragged him back inside and stabbed him three more times.

Relatives found the six-year-old lying in a pool of blood in the yard and rushed him to the Kingston Public Hospital where he was pronounced dead.

The police later found a bloody knife in a drum in the backyard. The post-mortem revealed that the boy died from wounds to the neck and chest.