List of youngest killers

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Throughout history, there have been instances of children intentionally killing other individuals, with a majority of these cases occurring in the United States. Some children have not been charged with murder, as the minimum age of criminal responsibility varies depending on the country and location; for instance, children must be at least ten years old to be judged in the United Kingdom or in certain states in the United States, such as Wisconsin. [1] [2]

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The following is a list of children who have been confirmed by reliable sources to have deliberately killed another human being, during which they were documented to be younger than age 13.

Killings in which the perpetrator was under the age of 13, with relevant details
NameAge at time of killing(s)Date of killing(s)LocationKilledInjuredNote(s) and citation(s)
Carl Newton Mahan6 yearsMay 18, 1929 Paintsville, Kentucky, United States10Mahan shot eight-year-old Cecil Van Hoose. [3] He was sentenced to 15 years in a reformatory, but his sentence was later overturned. [4]
Unnamed boy 6 yearsFebruary 29, 2000 Mount Morris Township, Michigan, United States10He shot his six-year-old classmate, Kayla Rolland, at Buell Elementary School. His uncle, the gun owner, was charged with involuntary manslaughter.[ citation needed ]
Lizzie Cook6 yearsFebruary 27, 1899 Birmingham, Alabama, United States10Cook intentionally set her two-year-old brother's clothes on fire while she was babysitting. The fire burned through the fabric and he died. [5]
Unnamed boy6 yearsJune 2, 1910 Oslo, Norway10 [6]
Unnamed boy7 yearsJanuary 2022 Smiley, Texas, United States10He shot 32-year-old Brandon Rasberry. He was not charged due to his age, but was instead sent to a psychiatric hospital. [7]
Virginia Hudson7 yearsJuly 23, 1887Butler Township, South Carolina, United States10Hudson beat a one-year-old child to death with a board. She was charged with murder. [8]
Robert Robertson7 years, 6 monthsJune 1907 Forest, Tasmania, Australia10Robertson beat his two-year-old brother with a piece of wood while he was babysitting. He was charged with murder, then put into state care. [9]
Amarjeet Sada8 years2007 Begusarai, India30He killed his eight-month-old sister, his nine-month-old cousin, and an unrelated six-month-old baby. He was not charged due to his age, but instead sent to a remand home in Munger. [10]
Unnamed girl8 yearsJuly 4, 1867 Cassville, Missouri, United States10She killed her four-year-old brother and was declared insane. [11]
Unnamed boy8 yearsFebruary 7, 2014 Padre Hurtado, Chile10He stabbed his seven-year-old cousin. He was not charged due to his age. [12]
Patrick Knowles8 yearsMay 1903 Stockton-on-Tees, England, United Kingdom12Knowles buried one-year-old Frederick Hughes, who died of suffocation. Knowles also attempted to drown one-year-old Fanny Lynas, [13] as well as burying another child. [14] He served nine years in prison under His Majesty's pleasure. [15]
Unnamed boy8 years, 10 monthsNovember 5, 2008 St. Johns, Arizona, United States20He shot his 29-year-old father, Vincent Romero, and his father's coworker. [16] He was arrested and pled guilty to negligent homicide. He was sentenced to an indefinite stay at a youth treatment center near Phoenix. He later moved to a group home and then a foster home. [17]
Carroll Cole 8 years1947 Richmond, California, United States10Cole drowned an eight-year-old boy. The murder was initially ruled an accident until he confessed in adulthood after killing five women. He was executed by lethal injection on December 6, 1985.[ citation needed ]
Mary Cooper9 years1885 Scottsville, Virginia, United States10Cooper hung and beat her seven-year-old cousin Melville Barrett. [18]
Unnamed boy9 yearsMay 6, 2019 Fawn River Township, Michigan, United States10He shot his 51-year-old adoptive mother. [19]
Cayetano Santos Godino 9 years, 4 months, 29 days – 16 years, 1 month, 3 daysMarch 29, 1906 – December 3, 1912 Buenos Aires, Argentina40The first murder was not discovered until Santos Godino later confessed. He was arrested several times.[ citation needed ]
Unnamed boy10 yearsSeptember 2022 Haicheng Township, China10He strangled his grandmother to death on video after she slapped him. [20]
Noah Q. Mann-Tate [21] 10 yearsNovember 21, 2022 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States10He shot and killed his mother. [22]
Unnamed girl (referred to as "A. F." [23] )10 yearsOctober 30, 2018 Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, United States10Killed six-month-old Jaxon Hunter. [24] [25] Her case was moved to juvenile court in 2019. [26]
William York10 yearsMay 13, 1748 Eyke, England, United Kingdom10York attacked five-year-old Susan Matthew with a knife, killing her. He was sentenced to death, but later pardoned. [27]
Hubbard Harrell10 yearsFebruary 3, 1888 Savannah, Georgia, United States30Harrell burned his six-year-old nephew and two unrelated children with boiling water. [28]
James Osmanson10 yearsApril 12, 1994 Butte, Montana, United States10Osmanson shot his 11-year-old classmate Jeremy Bullock at Margaret Leary Elementary School. [29] He was sent to a residential treatment facility. [30]
Joseph McVay10 yearsJanuary 2, 2011 Big Prairie, Ohio, United States10McVay shot his 46-year-old mother Deborah McVay. He was charged with "delinquency by virtue of committing murder." [31] He was sentenced to a juvenile detention center, then a residential treatment facility. [32]
Unnamed girl10 yearsSeptember 18, 2010 Sandy Springs, Georgia, United States10She beat two-year-old Zyda White, who she was babysitting. White fell unconscious and later died. [33]
Jane Walker10 years1886 Aiken County, South Carolina, United States10Walker poisoned the younger relative she was babysitting. She was charged with murder. [34]
James Arcene 10 years1872 Fort Gibson, Oklahoma, United States10Arcene, alongside a man named William Parchmeal, shot and beat William Feigel. Arcene was convicted of robbery and murder, then executed.[ citation needed ]
Robert Thompson 10 years, 5 months, 20 daysFebruary 12, 1993 Liverpool, England, United Kingdom10Thompson and Venables abducted two-year-old James Bulger from a shopping center in Bootle. They tortured Bulger before laying him across railway tracks, where he was hit by a train. They both spent eight years in a young offenders' institution. [35] In 2017, Venables was re-incarcerated for possessing Child pornography. [36]
Jon Venables 10 years, 5 months, 30 days
Unnamed boy10 yearsAugust 21, 2013 Broadview, Saskatchewan, Canada10He beat six-year-old Lee Bonneau to death. [37] He was not charged due to his age. [38]
Joseph Hall 10 years, 10 months, 12 daysMay 1, 2011 Riverside, California, United States10Hall shot his 32-year-old father, neo-Nazi leader Jeff Hall. He was sentenced to juvenile detention until the age of 23. His stepmother Krista McCary was charged with criminal storage of firearms and child neglect.[ citation needed ]
Mary Bell 10 years, 11 months, 30 days – 11 years, 1 month, 7 daysMay 25, 1968 – July 31, 1968 Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom20Bell strangled four-year-old Martin Brown and three-year-old Brian Howe, killing them both. She served 12 years in prison under Her Majesty's pleasure.[ citation needed ]
Anton Wood11 yearsNovember 1892 Denver, Colorado, United States10Wood shot Joseph Smith. He was charged with second-degree murder and sentenced to either 25 years of hard labor or life in prison. [39]
Nellie Cornelison11 yearsJanuary 15, 1902 Wichita, Kansas, United States10Cornelison slit the throat of her sister Laura Cornelison. She was not charged due to her age. [40]
Nathaniel Jamar Abraham11 years, 9 months, 10 days [41] October 29, 1997 Pontiac, Michigan, United States10Abraham shot an 18-year-old man. He was tried as an adult and convicted of second-degree murder. [42] [43]
Andrew Golden 11 years, 9 months, 27 daysMarch 24, 1998 Jonesboro, Arkansas, United States510Golden, alongside 13-year-old Mitchell Johnson, shot one of their teachers and four of their classmates at Westside Middle School. They were both imprisoned until the age of 21, with Golden serving 9 years and 2 months.[ citation needed ]
Unnamed girl 11 yearsJune 1, 2004 Sasebo, Japan10She killed her 12-year-old classmate Satomi Mitari at Okubo Elementary School. She was not charged, instead being institutionalized in a reformatory.[ citation needed ]
José Ángel Ramos Betts 11 yearsJanuary 10, 2020 Torreón, Mexico16An 11 year old student opened fire at the facilities of Colegio Cervantes Campus Bosque killing 1 and injuring 6 before turning the gun on himself.[ citation needed ]
Clayton Dietz11 yearsJanuary 13, 2026 Perry, Pennsylvania, United States10An 11-year-old boy accused of shooting his stepfather on his birthday. [44]
Unnamed boy11 yearsSeptember 15, 2016 Changde, China10Suspect Xiong strangled Beibei to death following a physical altercation triggered by an argument while playing. [45]
Unnamed girl12 yearsJanuary 2023 Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States10Stabbed her nine-year-old brother to death. [46]
Nathan Daniel Faris12 yearsMarch 2, 1987 De Kalb, Missouri, United States10Faris shot his 13-year-old classmate Timothy Perrin at De Kalb High School. He then committed suicide. [30]
Unnamed boy12 yearsJanuary 2000 Bristol, England, United Kingdom10He stabbed his six-month-old brother, cutting off his left hand. He was charged with manslaughter but found unfit to stand trial. [47]
Piedad Martínez del Águila 12 yearsDecember 4, 1965 – January 4, 1966 Murcia, Spain40Piedad Martínez del Águila poisoned four of her siblings. [48] [49]
Mary Maher12 yearsAugust 21 – September 8, 1906Dunkitt, County Kilkenny, Ireland31Maher poisoned her three sisters. She then committed suicide. [50]
Jose Reyes 12 years, 3 months, 19 daysOctober 21, 2013 Sparks, Nevada, United States12Reyes shot one of his classmates and one of his teachers at Sparks Middle School. He then committed suicide.
Lionel Tate 12 years, 5 months, 28 daysJuly 28, 1999 Broward County, Florida, United States10Tate battered his six-year-old cousin Tiffany Eunick to death. He was charged with first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison. The sentence was later reduced to one year of house arrest and 10 years of probation. As an adult he was sentenced to 30 years imprisonment for armed robbery.[ citation needed ]
Kristen Pittman 12 years, 7 months, 19 daysNovember 28, 2001 Chester, South Carolina, United States20Pittman shot her grandparents. She was tried as an adult and sentenced to 30 years in prison. Her sentence was later reduced by five years.[ citation needed ]
Hannah Ocuish 12 years, 9 monthsJuly 21, 1786 New London, Connecticut, United States10Ocuish's guilt is disputed.[ clarification needed ] She was hanged for the murder of six-year-old Eunice Bolles.[ citation needed ]
Evan Savoie 12 years, 3 months, 24 daysFebruary 15, 2003 Ephrata, Washington, United States10Savoie and Eakin stabbed and beat their 13-year-old friend Craig Sorger to death. Savoie was convicted of first-degree murder and Eakin was convicted of second-degree murder. Both Savoie and Eakin have since been released.[ citation needed ]
Jake Eakin 12 years, 3 months, 1 day
Jasmine Richardson 12 years, 6 months, 2 daysApril 23, 2006 Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada30Richardson and her 23-year-old boyfriend Jeremy Steinke stabbed three of her family members. Richardson was charged with first-degree murder. In 2020 her criminal record was expunged.[ citation needed ]
Unnamed boy12 yearsDecember 2, 2018 Yuanjiang, China10He stabbed his mother. He was not charged due to his age. [51]
Unnamed boy12 yearsApril 13, 2012 Hengyang, China30A 12-year-old boy killed three members of his aunt's family with a fruit knife. [52]
Unnamed boy12 yearsDecember 19, 2016 Huichang, China10A 12-year-old boy stabbed a classmate. [53]
Unnamed boy12 yearsJanuary 21, 2013 Dorval, Quebec, Canada10The boy shot and killed his brother. He was sentenced to two years' probation. [54]
Curtis Jones 12 years, 1 month and 6 daysJanuary 6, 1999 Port St. John, Florida, United States10Jones and his 13-year-old sister Catherine Jones were charged with second-degree murder. They were both sentenced to 17 years in prison.[ citation needed ]
Unnamed boy12 yearsSeptember 29, 2019 São Paulo, Brazil10He was sentenced to three years in prison. [55] [56]
Alex King 12 yearsNovember 26, 2001 Cantonment, Florida, United States10King and his 13-year-old brother Derek King killed their father. Alex served six years of his eight-year sentence.[ citation needed ]
Danny Preddie 12 yearsNovember 27, 2000 London, United Kingdom10Preddie and his 13-year-old brother Ricky Preddie attacked 10-year-old Damilola Taylor with a glass bottle. Danny was sentenced to eight years in prison, but served four additional years for violating his parole.[ citation needed ]
Unnamed girl12 yearsJuly 15, 2024 Humboldt, Tennessee, United States10She smothered her eight-year-old cousin. She was charged with murder and tampering with evidence. [57]
Unnamed boy12 yearsOctober 18, 2019 Curitiba, Brazil10He stabbed an elderly woman and was temporarily detained for 45 days. [58]
Howard Lang12 yearsNovember 18, 1947 Chicago, Illinois, United States10Lang killed seven-year-old Lonnie Fellick. [59] He was sentenced to 22 years in prison. His sentence was later overturned due to his age. This case was cited in Frederic Wertham's Seduction of the Innocent . [60]
Edwin Carl Debrow Jr.12 yearsSeptember 21, 1991 San Antonio, Texas, United States10Debrow shot a man. He was sentenced to 27 years in prison and released in 2019. [61] [62] [63]
Bailey Kurariki 12 years, 3 months, 28 daysSeptember 12, 2001 Papakura, New Zealand10Kurariki killed 40-year-old Michael Choy alongside seven accomplices. He was charged with manslaughter and released on parole in 2008. In 2011, he was sentenced to 14 months in prison for assault and domestic violence.[ citation needed ]
Jonah Louis Iverson [64] 12 yearsAugust 29, 1995 Laredo, Texas, United States10Iverson shot his 12-year-old classmate Lizzy Rivera at Memorial Middle School. He served ten years, firstly in a Texas Youth Commission facility and then in a state prison. [65]
Unnamed boy 12 yearsApril 2, 2024 Vantaa, Finland12He shot three of his classmates with a revolver, killing one. [66]
Unnamed boy12 yearsMay 14, 2023 Keene, Texas, United States10 [67]

See also

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