FREEHOLD, N.J. (AP) - A 40-year-old North Carolina woman has been arrested and charged with killing a 12-year-old girl in New Jersey more than 25 years ago.
Quiana Dees was found in a vacant wooded lot early on May 2, 1992 suffering from a gunshot wound to the head. The seventh-grader had left her apartment the previous evening.
The suspect, who wasn’t identified, is a former Asbury Park resident currently living in Henderson, North Carolina. She is awaiting extradition to New Jersey.
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The Monmouth County prosecutor’s office says since she was 13 at the time of the killing, she will face a maximum of four years in prison under juvenile laws.
Those laws prevent the case from being tried in adult court with potentially harsher penalties.
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