A teenager in Baltimore was convicted of raping and killing his 83-year-old neighborwhen he was only 14 years old. Said on Wednesday.
Tyrone Harbin, now 17 years old, is a jury on one murder, one rape, and a weapons crime that made Dorothy Mae unresponsive in an apartment in an August 2018 attack. Convicted by a member. According to the prosecution, she was subsequently injured and died in the hospital during a brutal assault.
"It is devastating to agree with the youngest murder defendant to rape and kill one of her seniors," Baltimore lawyer Marilyn Mosbysaid in a statement. It is stated in. "That means losing two lives."
Her neighbor contacted a Baltimore police officer after not seeing Neil for a few days, and the corresponding police officer was at her door. I found dry blood on the outside. Later, she turned out to be unresponsive and naked on the floor, Mosby said.
Investigators also have bloody clothes, some condom wrappers , And a broken lamp with blood on it, using a condom, the prosecutor said was a murder weapon.
The fingerprint of the condom wrapper is from Tyrone Harvin, and DNA testing revealed a partial profile consistent with a 14-year-old boy. According to Mosby, the lamp also had Neil's blood on it.
Her autopsy revealed that Neil had trauma to her head and genitals. The coroner determined that her cause of death was multiple injuries with complications.
Harbin, who appeared to have no relatives in court on Wednesday, looked down as the jury announced the verdict,Baltimore Sun reported. did.
According to the newspaper, a teenage lawyer was trying to question the DNA software used to adapt him to a murder weapon.
The prosecutor never provided a motive for the killing, but police said he was helping Neil with household chores around her house before Harbin was attacked. Meanwhile, a teenage family told The Baltimore Sun in 2018 that he was innocent.
"I know my son wouldn't do anything like this," his mother told the outlet.
When Harbin was sentenced to life imprisonment in January, Mosby said he was facing a three-year sentence in addition to life imprisonment, adding that "there is no winner" in the case. rice field.
"I have repeatedly said that young people must do more to reach out to young people early on before they get involved in the criminal justice system," Mosby said. I said on Wednesday. "And today exemplifies how dire the need is."
