Juvenile siblings admit to killing brother; detained on murder charges
By SUSAN PARROTT
Associated Press

LEWISVILLE, Texas — Two suburban siblings have admitted to killing their 6-year-old brother and burying him in a muddy creek bank behind their home, police said Tuesday.

The body of Jackson Carr was found about 1 a.m. Tuesday in a shallow grave with a puncture wound to his neck about 100 yards behind the family’s ranch-style home in Lewisville. The victim’s 15-year-old sister led police to the grave after authorities and neighbors spent hours searching for the boy.

“The sister confessed to killing her brother during an interview,” Sgt. Richard Douglas said. “In an interview with the 10-year-old, he confessed to holding him down during the process of murder.”

The siblings were detained on murder charges, Lewisville police investigator Eddie Barrett said. They were held Tuesday at the Denton County Juvenile Detention Center.

The Denton County District Attorney’s Office had not filed formal charges against the children as of late Tuesday afternoon, according to Assistant District Attorney Lee Ann Breading.

“The information we have is, of course, not a complete picture,” Breading said in a story in The Dallas Morning News’ online edition. “Lewisville is still finalizing their case reports.”

Police would not comment on motive but said important evidence was found in the family’s home. The parents, Michael and Rita Carr, are not suspects, Douglas said.

“The parents are traumatized by this,” he said. “They’ve been cooperative with Lewisville police.”

The Tarrant County Medical Examiner has ruled the death a homicide caused primarily by a stab wound to the jugular, but also caused by suffocation.

The boy was reported missing Monday evening after his brother told their parents he could not find him after a game of hide-and-seek.

Mike Houser, a neighbor who helped authorities search for the boy, said he had walked by the site where the boy was later uncovered and didn’t notice the freshly turned dirt.

Neighbors said the family has lived in the rural subdivision for about four months and that the children regularly played in the creek bed. A red tent that the children were known to use as a fort was still standing near the loose red dirt where the body had been uncovered. Homicide investigators’ plastic gloves were discarded on the mound.

Lewisville is a suburb about 20 miles northwest of Dallas.

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