Boy, 9, killed while trying to defend sister, 11, from sex assault in backyard of Richmond, Virginia, home

A 9-year-old boy was killed near his Virginia home after he tried to fight off a teenager as he sexually assaulted the child’s 11-year-old sister, police said. The little boy and his sister were playing near some railroad tracks in the backyard of their Brandon Road home in Richmond when a teenaged boy suddenly attacked the girl about 6:30 p.m. Thursday, WRIC-TV reported. “From what I understand, the sister was raped and (the brother) tried to save her,” the children’s aunt, Jacqueline Smith, told the news station. “And he was hit in the head with a brick and killed.” Police were called after the bleeding girl was spotted running out of the woods naked, Smith said.

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