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Using investigative research combined with primary audio, Morbidology takes an in-depth look at true crime cases from all across the world. Kayla Rolland, 6, loved to go to church and watch her favourite show on television, Barney.

She lived in Mount Morris Township, Michigan, with her mother and two older siblings. The school was situated in the heart of a rough neighbourhood, rife with unemployment and heavy drug use. During a change of classes, most of the first-graders were lined up in the hallway, ready to move to their next class. As some children lingered in the home room — including Kayla — the first-grade teacher, Alicia Judd, went into the hallway to check on the other children.

When the teacher stepped out of the classroom, Dedrick Owens, also 6-years-old, approached Kayla. The bullet entered her right arm and travelled through a vital artery. Judd, who heard the commotion, ran back into the classroom, saw the blood-spattered body of her pupil and called I need an ambulance immediately. The little girl is getting white. Kayla was treated by paramedics at the scene and was rushed to Hurley Medical Center where she was pronounced dead at AM.

Dedrick subsequently became the youngest school shooter in a nation overwhelmed by such tragedies. He was taken into police custody where he explained what he had done.

It was noted he showed no remorse nor did he seem upset. As it soon became apparent, Dedrick and his older brother had been living in a crack den operated by his uncle, Sir Marcus Winfrey, and another man, Jamelle James. The crack den on Juliah St. The house had been under federal investigations for drug and gun trafficking before the shooting.

Even before moving to the crack den, Dedrick had been living with his drug addicted mother who would later confess she frequently exposed all of her children to marijuana despite their young ages. In addition to Dedrick and his brother, Tamarla had another daughter who she took to live with other relatives. Despite her evident problems, Tamarla had been working two jobs in Oakland County in an attempt to get off welfare. He had been convicted of cocaine possession with the intent to sell.

An investigation uncovered that the gun used in the shooting had been stolen by Jamelle, who routinely kept it loaded and often twirled it in front of the two boys, creating an atmosphere of reckless circumstances. Elizabeth Krasinski realized it was going to be a hard start to that Tuesday morning. Their mother had been at work since 4 a. She was full of spunk. She would go out and get muddy. She was a tomboy. She loved being covered in dirt. That morning, the struggle went on as the sisters and their brother left the little house where they stayed on Princeton Avenue and walked a few blocks toward Buell and Summit Middle School -- each going their separate ways.

I tell my kids now -- we do not use that word in this house. Krasinski never saw her sister, Kayla Rolland, alive again. The Flint Journal never named the boy because he was a juvenile and never charged with a crime.

Twenty years ago, the boy was staying in a house with tattered curtains and garbage bags taped over broken windows, staying with his older brother, also a Buell student, because their mother, Tamarla Owens, had been evicted from another home in the township about two weeks earlier. Police and prosecutors said drugs and guns were common in the house.

During a court hearing after the shooting, the boy demonstrated to a Genesee District Court judge how he had seen Jamelle James, another man who stayed there, play with the gun, twirling it in his hands. The gun that killed Kayla on Feb.

James would later be convicted of involuntary manslaughter for having made the gun available to the boy. The gun ended up with loose change and candy in a Puma shoebox. On the day he shot Kayla, the boy walked to Buell with his brother, telling him he had the pistol.

Judd was lining up students in the hallway when she heard what she later said sounded like a balloon popping. When she walked back into the classroom to see what the sound was, the remaining students told their teacher that a boy had shot Kayla, who was standing in front of a mirror looking at herself.

Judd ran to the school office and told them to call police before running back to the classroom where Kayla had fallen over. When Judd ran back to her classroom, she found Kayla on the floor with the bullet wound to her chest. She used her cell phone to call at a. Judd used cardiopulmonary resuscitation after telling the dispatcher Kayla was going into convulsions, trying to get air. The teacher found a pulse after giving Kayla two breaths, but the little girl was not breathing normally.

Buell Elementary School children are evacuated after a shooting at the school. They were put on buses and taken across the street to a church where they were reunited with family members. The school was the sight of a shooting where a first grader was shot and killed by a classmate. Photo shot Tuesday, February 29, Just before a. Michael Jaggi, who was working in the emergency room that morning.

Jaggi is currently vice president and chief medical officer at the hospital. The other adults involved would be in and out of court systems in the years to follow. This is the "youngest" school shooting. This story was featured in the Michael Moore film Bowling for Columbine. As was revealed in Bowling For Columbine , after the shooting the boy was unaware of the seriousness of his actions. Murder of Kayla Rolland. Six-year-old Dedrick Owens fatally shot classmate Kayla Renee Rolland May 12, - February 29, in a classroom before being taken into police custody.

Buell Elementary School closed in It was part of the Beecher Community School District. The incident began when 6-year-old Dedrick Owens found a. Further in the day, during a changing of classes, Owens fatally shot 6-year-old Kayla Rolland in the presence of a teacher and 22 students.

The bullets entered her right arm and traveled through her vital organs. At a. Owens then threw the handgun into a wastebasket and fled to a nearby restroom.

He was held in custody until the Genesee County Family Independence Agency could determine his placement. At six years of age, Kayla Rolland is believed to be the youngest school shooting victim in U.

Dedrick Owens is the youngest school shooter. Due to Owens' age and lack of ability to form intent, Owens was never charged for the murder.

In most U. In an ruling, the U. Supreme Court declared that "children under the age of 7 years could not be guilty of felony, or punished for any capital offense, for within that age the child is conclusively presumed incapable of committing a crime.

Jamelle James, who owned the. Two years later, Buell Elementary School was closed, and was demolished in January Student killed in Michigan elementary school shooting. A 6-year-old girl was shot to death by a 7-year-old classmate at a Michigan elementary school on Tuesday, authorities said. It was not immediately clear if the shooting was accidental or intentional, he said. The girl died about a. Initial reports said the boy was showing off a handgun to classmates when it fired.

Police closed off nearby streets and the students were immediately evacuated and the parents notified. I was scared. My heart was pounding. At the end of the movie the Manchurian Candidate, Frank Sinatra, unable to fathom the depth and extent of the evil that had been done to the mind of a man programmed to become a killer, cries, "Hell, hell!

He is too young to be charged with anything, but the county prosecutor has charged the man who left the loaded gun lying around with involuntary manslaughter, contributing to the delinquency of a minor and gross neglect--each of which has a wider application. The story may be too unusual for the drawing of larger lessons, but one reason it is so troubling is that it touches the worst of America's social ills, including the shaping of a boy who became a loaded gun himself.

Who killed Kayla Rolland? A six-year-old classmate did it. On Tuesday morning he went to the Theo J. Buell Elementary School carrying both a concealed Davis. Another kid reported the knife to a teacher, and it was taken away. The boy held on to the gun. Shortly before 10 a. The children were changing classrooms, from a small reading group to a computer-training class.

This is contrary to the police report that the crime occurred inside a classroom. The kids were on the first level heading to the second when the boy pulled out his pistol. Kayla was walking ahead of him, up the school stairs. He called out, "I don't like you.

Boaz says he saw blood on both sides of Kayla's stomach. She grabbed her stomach, then her neck, gasping for air. The shooter ran to the bathroom to hide and tossed the gun into the trash. Kayla was treated by paramedics at the school and was taken to Hurley Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead at a.

Immediately after the shooting, the principal made an announcement over the public-address system ordering teachers to lock all classroom doors. The school was closed at 11 a. The boy, who did not attempt to run away, was taken to the principal's office, where he was questioned, and later to a police station.

The boy's father Dedric Owens is in jail for violating parole after serving time for possession of cocaine "with intent to deliver.

The two boys then moved into a crack house, where guns were traded for drugs, with their uncle and the year-old man who left the murder weapon, evidently loaded, under some blankets. A search of the house produced a loaded pump-action shotgun and a rock of crack cocaine.

The boy and his brother had been sharing a single sofa as a bed. Outside the white clapboard house, dented hubcaps and other discarded auto parts lay strewn among candy wrappers, soda bottles and wires. Broken windows were covered with a blue tarp. A light so dim it might have been a continuation of the dark showed from inside. The hell in which the boy lived has to be partly responsible, because it helped produce a child full of rage and confusion.