William Micah Hester faces a murder charge in the death of 4-year-old Joanna J. Lockaby, whose body was found by a search and rescue team on Tuesday afternoon less than 30 minutes after she was reported missing.
A 17-year-old half-brother has been accused of suffocating his toddler sister to death before dumping her body in a plastic bin behind their South Carolina home, marking the death of a second child in four years for mother Krista Nix.
William Micah Hester now faces a murder charge in the death of 4-year-old Joanna J. Lockaby, whose body was found by a search and rescue team on Tuesday afternoon less than 30 minutes after she was reported missing. Video fromThe Greenville County Sheriff’s Office confirmed to The Daily Beast that Hester is being charged as an adult. Local cops haven’t said why he would kill his baby sister.
Hester, who appears to go by his middle name “Micah,” appeared in court Wednesday afternoon, with his father, who shares the same name as him, and Nix in attendance.. “I know my boy. I can hold up my hand up to the lord and testify that because I know he's a good boy, never been in trouble and he loved his sister.”This isn't the first time tragedy has struck within the family.
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