MIAMI- Jarred Harrell ,24, has been formally charged with the murder of 7-year old Somer Thompson, Florida investigators announced today in a press conference.
Thompson was reported missing in October, and after a massive search, which included members of the military, ,her small body was found in a Georgia landfill about 50 miles north of Jacksonville.
At the time she went missing, Harrell was living in his parent’s house near Somer’s school. The Clay County Sherrif’s department say Harrell found Thompson on her walk home from school, then assaulted, and killed the little girl, before dumping her body. Thompson had run off ahead from her older sister, and group of other school-children, after getting in an argument with them.