Any child in this community is any one of our own kids. Santa cruz is shaken to the core over the murder of 8yearold Madison Maddie middleton. Of your kids kills your other kids thats how we feel as parents in this community. Police say a 15yearold boy who lives at the art center killed fellow resident maddie luring her into his apartment. She knew him. I think she was eight years old and she had a reasonable amount of trust in him. They believe the teen watched them search and that maddie was likely dead before anyone knew she was missing. He was nearby when maddie was located. He was subsequently taken into custody. Maddie attended the boys and girls club this summer and today children made cards for her family. There is a lot of questions from our youth mostly why did this happen and how could somebody do this . Those are tough questions to answer. Police are waiting on autopsy results before saying what happened inside the apartment where maddie was killed. They interviewed the sus
Maddy. The 8yearold girl murdered. And thrown in the e0 f iiahr c0h,pvk live, from the cbs bay are studios, this is kpix5 news. Tonight, remembering maddy. The eightyearold girl murdered and thrown in the dumpster. As many wonder how could it happen . Tonight, new details about the suspect, maddys 15yearold neighbor. Im elizabeth cook. Im allen martin. Ken bastida has the night off. Betty yu takes us to a memorial tonight at the beach in santa cruz. Reporter so many people in the Community Came out tonight to grieve and remember little Maddy Middleton asking how this tragedy could have happened. This as we are learning new details. Sources tell the San Francisco chronicle that maddy was sexually assaulted and strangled and her body trashed just five minutes before her mom called police. People who searched for maddy over two days, calling her name hoping for her safe return stood in silence tonight. The Community Left flowers and lit up part of the santa cruz coastline with candles. I
Maddy. The 8yearold girl murdered. And thrown in the e0 f iiahr c0h,pvk live, from the cbs bay are studios, this is kpix5 news. Tonight, remembering maddy. The eightyearold girl murdered and thrown in the dumpster. As many wonder how could it happen . Tonight, new details about the suspect, maddys 15yearold neighbor. Im elizabeth cook. Im allen martin. Ken bastida has the night off. Betty yu takes us to a memorial tonight at the beach in santa cruz. Reporter so many people in the Community Came out tonight to grieve and remember little Maddy Middleton asking how this tragedy could have happened. This as we are learning new details. Sources tell the San Francisco chronicle that maddy was sexually assaulted and strangled and her body trashed just five minutes before her mom called police. People who searched for maddy over two days, calling her name hoping for her safe return stood in silence tonight. The Community Left flowers and lit up part of the santa cruz coastline with candles. I
Detectives as they rummaged through the recycle bin. the body was located in the recycle bin in a way that if you merely flipped the lid open you wouldnt be able to see the body. Alecia the suspect was taken into custody immediately. Police say he lured 8 year old Madyson Middleton to the apartment he shared with his mother. Thats where a kron 4 source tell us she was raped and strangled, then carried to the recycle bin downstairs from the suspects home. Maddy went missing around 5 sunday evening while playing on her scooter. Her parents called police a little after 6pm. its my belief she was killed before we even got the phone call sunday night alecia initially search teams handed out flyers, looked in wooded areas, and the nearby river and beach. But it was a second search of the tannery property where maddy was found. we were looking at this as a rescue operation. As time passed we realized we needed to shift our focus and look at it more as a recovery and expect the fact that we ma
Reporter they live in this home that is surrounded by firefighters. This is right off of dill hill road. They say officially no homes are threatened but learnly the flames were coming very close to this home. This is your home here. Yes, it is. You drove out here 1015 minutes ago. Yes. They told us to evacuate as a precaution. How scary was it to look out your back window . [ technical difficulties ]. You feeling thankful they have a handle . Yes. They are doing a great job. When we first came out, you cant see it now but the whole hillside was it will up. It looks like they got it contained. Doing a great job. Reporter they certainly are. Trevor and his family they woke up this morning and someone was knocking on the door telling them they needed to get out of their home. Very scary situation in the middle of the night. As you remember here pam just 1520 minutes ago when we got here this whole hillside behind us huge flames were coming from this hillside burning through this dry brush