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Ohio officials said on Tuesday that a 13-year-old girl who was found dead on Monday was killed — prompting murder charges against her father.
As reported by KTOL, the coroners in Lucas County determined that Kei’mani Latigue passed away due to multiple sharp injuries to the neck. Latigue disappeared from her residence in Toledo on March 17, and she was discovered lifeless a week later on the second floor of a burnt-out property.
Latigue was weeks from her 14th birthday.
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“This is one of the most horrific cases I’ve ever heard of,” FOP official Brian Steel said, per WTTG.
“This is a 14-year-old who was murdered, raped, had her hands cut off, and her throat almost cut off.”
On the same day that Latigue’s body was located, an arrest warrant was issued for Darnell Jones, 33, her father, on charges related to child kidnapping. He now faces accusations of murder, assault, and third-degree felony kidnapping.
On Tuesday, Columbus police said there was a SWAT standoff involving Jones, who was shot but is expected to survive. No officers were injured.
It has been revealed that for the last five years, Latigue resided with her grandmother. Her grandmother reported her missing on March 18, after returning to find their home in disarray.
Jones told WTVG last week that he last saw Latigue on Sunday, March 16, after she called and said she was afraid to be home alone. However, police said Jones provided inconsistent accounts of his correspondence with his daughter or her whereabouts.
“He dropped her off at my mother’s house at 10 o’clock Monday night, and around 11:30 she called him and said that she thought that someone was trying to break into the house,” Latigue’s mother, who lives in Cleveland, told The Toledo Blade. “He said he came back. He stayed with her until she said that she felt OK. He had to go back home because he has a newborn, and he left early Tuesday morning.”
As of Tuesday, a motive has not been disclosed.
This story is developing…
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