Thomas McClellan, 25, was said to have allegedly sat on his five-year-old stepdaughter's chest and stabbed her before setting her ablaze because she asked for a snack.
McClellan
Says he was angry because Luna, the little girl refused to leave his
room and insisted that he gave her food, during courts preliminary
hearing on Thursday.
McClellan told
investigators he wrestled the Five-year-old stepdaughter to the ground,
sat on her hips and stabbed her multiple times in the chest. He then
covered the girl’s dead body with blankets, poured vodka on the pile and
set it on fire.
Firefighter Corey Drolett, who found Luna’s body, said he knew it was already too late.“I knew the victim had expired,” he said.
But he handed the girl through a window and asked firefighters to “very lightly” perform CPR.
Victoria
McClellan, the deceased’s mother was said to be at work when fire
fighters were called in as flame spread through the ground-level
apartment.
Written by Yinka Ijiiola
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