Keaire Brown, 15, guilty of murdering Scott Sappington Jr. in botched carjacking

Scott Sappington Jr. had just dropped off his siblings at their grandmother’s house when he was gunned down from point-blank on July 23, 2008. The 16-year-old junior at Sumner Academy was on his way to work at a McDonald’s when he was killed by someone trying to steal his car at 10th and Laurel in Kansas City, Kansas. 

KCK police pinned Sappington’s killing on 13-year-old Keaire Brown. A jury found 15-year-old Brown guilty today of first-degree murder and attempted aggravated robbery (she was initially charged in juvenile court, but the state of Kansas won a motion to try her as an adult).