BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — The capital murder case against the female suspect in 3-year-old Kamille “Cupcake” McKinney’s murder will go before a grand jury.
Derick Irisha Brown, 29, appeared in court Friday morning after being charged with capital murder in the Birmingham toddler’s death. Brown, along with 39-year-old Patrick Stallworth, were charged in late October after the girl’s body was found Oct. 22 in a dumpster at a North Alabama landfill.
In Stallworth’s court appearance, prosecutors said evidence from a mattress inside the suspects’ apartment indicated a mixture of blood and DNA from Brown, Stallworth and McKinney. Meth and Trazadone, a sedative prescribed to Stallworth, was found in McKinney’s system, testimony revealed during Stallworth’s hearing. His defense team argued he was asleep for much of the time McKinney was at their apartment.
In his final statements Friday, Judge Clyde Jones said it’s evident that Brown and Stallworth worked together and that one or both of them sexually abused McKinney and caused her death.
If convicted, Brown and Stallworth could face the death penalty.
Anybody that abuses and kills a child should be put to death. if you make an example out of enough people these kinds of crimes against children will dwindle.this is happening every single week in the United States because of our justice system, the attorneys and the judges along with the jurors who allow people to get away with this with a slap on the wrist by putting them in jail. These people took away the life of a child after abusing her and do not deserve to live on our planet.