he stabbed his 8-year-old sister to death. a story that authorities now say was fiction. the boy s biological mother told reporters he was protective of and loved his sister. my son loved his sister so much. i know he would never hurt his sister. they never even used to fight when they were little. he never pushed her around like big brothers and sisters do. reporter: after the girth s death from multiple stab wounds, the town rallied around the family, covering the area with purple ribbons, leila s favorite color. now that the suspected child killer turns out to be a chil himself, a sense of betrayal is beginning to take hold says a man who had to remove the flyers and cancel a fund-raiser for the family. there was more shock than relief and sadness because it was actually the 12-year-old who had started all this stuff and then people got angry with it and then it just blew up. reporter: investigators would not discuss motive or evidence but the middle school says the boy had
brought a pocket knife to work. penny killmore whose daughter goes to school with the boy describes him as being distant, even glassy eyed at times, very different from his bubbly 8-year-old sister. i was devastated for the family and just for that little boy. my heartached for him. something inside him, he has to be so angry and mad to do something like that. and this is just an awful story to imagine. i know the family called a press conference for tomorrow. do you have any sense about why they would call it now? what they re going to be saying? we only know what we ve been told. we know it s going to be a prepared statement, not just to the press but to the community as well. we know it s being coordinated through the sheriff s office. it s going to be right here in this parking lot where i m standing. we don t know who s going to be involved. it is going to be the biological mother, stepmother and father? independly, we did hear from the stepmother through a social
relief and sadness because it was actually the 12-year-old who had started all this stuff and then people got angry with it and then it just blew up. reporter: investigators would not discuss motive or evidence but the middle school says the boy had been suspended for five days this school year after he brought a pocket knife to work. penny killmore whose daughter goes to school with the boy describes him as being distant, even glassy eyed at times, very different from his bubbly 8-year-old sister. i was devastated for the family and just for that little boy. my heartached for him. something inside him, he has to be so angry and mad to do something like that. and this is just an awful story to imagine. i know the family called a press conference for tomorrow. do you have any sense about why they would call it now? what they re going to be saying? we only know what we ve been told. we know it s going to be a