Eight-year-old Martin Cobb was beaten to death while trying to protect his 12-year-old sister from a rapist.
His sibling, whose name is not being released because of her age and the nature of the crime was slashed on the face.
The incident happened at around 6.30pm Thursday, the brother and sister were playing by the train tracks near their home when a stranger approached the 12-year-old girl, sexually assaulted her and slashed her face.
When her 8-year-old brother tried to intervene, the teenage attacker allegedly turned on him, throwing a rock at his head. Martin died instantly.
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| The children's mother |
Police responded to the scene a short time later after someone saw the 12-year-old girl running naked and covered in blood out of the nearby woods. Police have since apprehended the suspect, who turned out to be a black teenager.
Initially, the victim described her assailant as a white man with scraggly facial hair, the local station WWBT reported.
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