Cheryl Korbel described the moment she went 'hysterical' when she was told her daughter had died in an interview played to court
The mother of a nine-year-old girl who was shot in her home tearfully told police officers “I knew she had gone” as she described the moment in a video interview played to a court.
READ MORE: Suspects get rude awakening as police smash down doors in crackdown on major cocaine and heroin gang “I couldn’t keep the door shut because it wasn’t locked, and with my hand I couldn’t keep it shut, so I let it go and I think at the same time I heard the baby speak and that’s when I turned round and I spotted her sat at the bottom of the stairs. I leant over her and like held her to the left, I just huddled over.”
She said a neighbour came in and started CPR on Olivia. She added: “I knew she’d gone, I knew she’d gone. Then the police turned up and came up and just picked her up and took her out the house.”
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