11-year-old boy who killed girl, 8 for refusing to let him play with puppies found guilty of first-degree murder

The young boy who killed 8-year-old MaKayla
Dyer with a shotgun on the Tennessee trailer park
where they both lived has been found guilty of
first-degree murder and sentenced to state
custody until he turns 19.
The judge’s order, posted online by local
television station WATE-TV, said the state should
use all reasonable resources to determine why the
boy shot the girl, and added he should be treated
and rehabilitated so this never happens again.
"A child who commits first-degree murder
cannot be willy-nilly turned loose into
society." Judge Dennis Roach wrote.
According to his description of events, on October
3, 2015, MaKayla and her sister were playing
outside and talking to the boy while he sat at his
bedroom window on the mobile home site in the
town of White Pine. He then asked the sisters to
go get their puppies and when they refused he
went to get a 12-gauge shotgun and a BB gun
and told the girls he had guns.
McKayla is said to have laughed at him and
responded that the guns weren't real. The boy
"then made certain the gun was loaded, cocked
the hammer on the gun and shot the victim just
above the heart at a downward trajectory," Judge
Roach wrote. The girl fell backward, "quickly lost
consciousness, and was later confirmed dead," he
added. "The mother of the child knelt on the
ground and picked her up, placing her child in her
arms as she passed away."