(UnitedVoice.com) – Dallas cops are holding a suspect after a horrific car accident killed an 82-year-old woman in November. Although the crash happened over a month ago, police didn’t track down the suspect until December. Shockingly, he’s just 12 years old.
On November 7, on her way to buy groceries, Florence Kelly was waiting at a stop sign in northwest Dallas when a 2007 Toyota Avalon smashed into her car. Witnesses saw three people — the driver and two young girls — run from the Toyota, and first responders found a 13-year-old girl trapped in the wreck. Paramedics took Kelly to a hospital, but she died of her injuries. Doorbell cameras and eyewitnesses say the group from the Toyota didn’t call 911 after the crash.
The boy is suspected of driving a Toyota Avalon when it crashed into the car of Florence Kelly on Nov. 7 as she sat at a stop sign.https://t.co/WiqUzynx6N
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) December 8, 2022
The reason they didn’t call 911 became obvious when police finally caught up with the suspected driver: he’s only 12. The authorities arrested him on a murder charge in connection with Kelly’s death. Because of his age, police won’t release his identity, and prosecutors have charged him as a juvenile, meaning he doesn’t have the option of bail. Instead, the state is holding him in a juvenile detention center. Every two weeks, a detention hearing will decide whether to release him back to a parent or guardian or keep him in custody.
There are limitations to his sentencing, too. If the courts find the boy guilty as a juvenile, the court can’t sentence him to more than 40 years in prison. Additionally, he’ll be remanded to juvenile detention until he reaches a minimum age of 16. From there, he can be transferred to prison.
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