[Warning: Potentially Triggering Content] After finding a 4-year-old girl dead in the trash behind her home, South Carolina police have made a shocking arrest: the victim’s 17-year-old half-brother.
According to reports, Joanna Lockaby was reported missing just before 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday. After getting a description of the child from her family members, deputies from the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office immediately began searching for her.
The search ended all too quickly after it began, with investigators finding the little girl’s body in a plastic bin in a wooded area behind her home.
She was pronounced dead on the scene. While speaking to WYFF after the body was found, Greenville County deputy coroner Mike Ellis said the child died sometime Tuesday, adding that the office would treat the death as “suspicious” for the time being.
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