Hi everybody Cheryl Atkinson

Cheryl Atkinson here welcome to another edition of full measure after hours today

I speak with Marion County Florida Sheriff Billy Woods, where one of the most

horrific violent crimes committed by children is getting ready to go to trial. As I began looking into America's juvenile crime wave, a fitting

place to go seemed to be Marion County, Florida. That's where a really horrific crime was committed last year. It's getting

ready to go to trial pretty soon here. In this case, there were apparently six children driving around in a car according to officials trying to figure out who they might rob to be able to buy marijuana.

Well, it ends up that three of the children shot execution style, three of the other children

and dumped their bodies.

And these bodies were being discovered over the course of the next day or day and a half. Actually, one of the young

girls that was found initially was still breathing but later passed away, and one of

the shooters was 12 years old. And according to the sheriff in Marion County, Billy Woods,

maybe one of the most shocking things, at least to him, was that when these boys were caught and charged, the 12-year-old,

he says, showed absolutely no remorse.

Now, of course, they haven't been to trial yet, but the idea that they wouldn't be more upset whether

innocent or guilty of this crime, there doesn't seem to be any denial that they were all together the night that this happened

But the affect or the emotions the lack of emotions shown by this 12-year-old was really something as far as the sheriff was concerned.

And it turns out that across the country children are increasingly committing and becoming

victims in serious crimes.

The latest numbers I had found put out by the FBI when I started looking into this were more than

three years old.

I'm not sure why they can't be a little more updated, but even three years ago in 2020, actually

coming on four years ago, these numbers by the FBI show that murders committed by a juvenile

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