WHITE PINE, TN – An 11-year-old boy in Jefferson County, Tennessee, has been sentenced to spend the next eight years in juvenile prison for the murder of an 8-year-old girl, according to a court document.
The boy was found guilty of first-degree murder for shooting MaKayla Dyer in the chest with a shotgun after she refused to let him play with her puppy, according to a sentencing document obtained by The Newport Plain Talk and posted online by CNN affiliate WATE in Knoxville.
He will remain incarcerated until his 19th birthday, according to the court document.
The attorneys for the prosecution and the defense would not comment to CNN, but the boy’s great-grandmother, Dianna Houchins, told CNN that an appeal is planned.
According to the sentencing document, MaKayla and her sister were talking to the boy from outside the mobile home in rural White Pine, Tennessee, where the boy was staying, on the evening of October 3.