Boy, 14, arrested for raping and suffocating 11-year-old neighbor girl in her bed after her brothers threw a rowdy party

A rural North Carolina that was horrified last year when an 11-year-old girl was raped and murdered in her own bed has been shocked again - this time after a neighbor boy, age just 14, was arrested and charged with the crime. McKenzie Mae Sessoms, a fifth grader from Clinton, North Carolina, was found suffocated with a pillow last September 6 - the morning after her brothers threw a 'rowdy gathering' at the family home. On Wednesday, police announced the arrest of a young teenage boy, who is charged with first-degree rape and murder. Officials did not release his name, but family and neighbors identified him as Antonio Trey Jones. At the time of the murder, Jones was living with his grandfather Howard Jones in a house off a dirt road - just feet from McKenzie's home, Mr Jones told WTVD-TV. 'If he done it, I'm glad they got him. That's all I can say,' Mr Jones said. An autopsy report says that McKenzie was found wedged against the pillow that was used to suffocate her. Her pants were rolled down and a quilt was covering her body. Authorities said they arrested the suspect after using DNA evidence to match him to the crime. Mr Jones said his grandson Antonio had moved away to live with his mother. McKenzie's family said Antonio was banned from the girl's home after he made 'vulgar' comments to her, WTVD reports. However, a Jones family friend told the TV station that the boy is mentally disabled and incapable of such violence. 'He's just as sweet as he can be,' Rhonda Wright said 'Trey is being accused of terrible, terrible things that I just don't see him mentally capable of doing at all.' McKenzie's family says she was focused on being a little girl. 'She loved riding horses, riding four-wheelers, just hanging with her friends,' grandmother Cathy Starke told the TV station.

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