4-Year-Old Killed In Home Invasion

Police Say Boy Stabbed 36 Times With Scissors

POSTED: 7:01 am PST November 11, 2010
UPDATED: 7:32 am PST November 11, 2010

MUSKOGEE, Okla. -- An Oklahoma community is in shock after a 4-year-old boy is stabbed with scissors 36 times and killed in a brutal home invasion.

Dakota Lane and his 6-year-old brother were sleeping when the attack took place Tuesday night, Muskogee police said. The 6-year-old was not injured.

Dakota Lane's mother, who is eight months pregnant, was injured trying to fend off the attacker, whom police identified as 18-year-old Aaron Laconsello. The boy later died at a hospital.

Prosecutors planned to charge Laconsello with first-degree murder Friday.

"It's just so senseless that a 4-year-old defenseless little boy, you know, would have to be brutally murdered like he was," said Jack Bumgartner, Dakota's grandfather.

Neighbors said Laconsello had been staying in a house nearby, and several people said they saw him drinking earlier that evening.

Drunk or not, neighbors said they can't explain the killing.

"There is no sense out of this at all," neighbor Deanna Gilbert said. "I mean, he's a 4-year-old, you know? They didn't even take anything. They just went in there and brutally killed him."

Meanwhile, police will continue an investigation they said is unprecedented.

"In my entire career, I've never seen anything like this," Muskogee police Cpl. Pedro Zardeneta said. "It's sad."

From: http://www.kptv.com/news/25757584/detail.html