A 13-year-old Girl was Arrested for Slapping and Kicking a 15-year-old Girl at Kwun Tong Promenade

A widely circulating video shows that two teenage girls were suspected of having a fierce argument at Kwun Tong Promenade in the early morning of New Year's Day. One of the girls even slapped and kicked the other. The police said they had arrested a 13-year-old girl on suspicion of assault causing physical harm.

The 13-year-rold girl slapped the 15-year0old girl, Photo source: Threads

According to the police, the arrested girl claimed that the victim had repeatedly spread gossip and false information about her online, making her feel dissatisfied and commit the assault.

The 13-year-rold girl slapped the 15-year0old girl, Photo source: Threads

The police said that at about 1 a.m. on January 1st, after meeting the victim at Kwun Tong Promenade, the arrested girl started to slap and kick the victim, causing multiple bruises on the victim's face and body. At about 3 a.m., the police received a call from the victim's mother and immediately took over the investigation.

The 13-year-rold girl kicked the 15-year0old girl, Photo source: Threads

After an in-depth investigation, including reviewing a large number of CCVT clips and conducting intelligence analysis, the police successfully identified the suspect and launched an arrest operation at 5 p.m. on the same day, arresting a 13-year-old local schoolgirl in Kwai Chung. During the operation, the police retrieved the clothes the suspect had worn at the time of the incident from the residence of the arrested girl, who is currently being detained for investigation.

The police appealed to citizens not to break the law out of momentary impulse and attempt to solve problems by violent means. The police reaffirmed that since they attach great importance to violent and juvenile delinquency cases, they had the determination and ability to bring all perpetrators to justice.

In addition, the police also urged parents to pay more attention to their children's social situations during the holiday period, avoid the children's contact with undesirable persons, and be cautious about children's usage of social media. The police once again reaffirmed that "assault causing physical harm" is a very serious crime. Once convicted, the maximum sentence can be up to three years in prison. To protect their cleanness, citizens should not test the limits of the law.

The Kwun Tong Police Force

HOUSTON (AP) — Prosecutors have charged a man allegedly connected to some of the deaths linked to the “Texas Killing Fields,” an area near Houston where the bodies of dozens of women were found beginning in the 1970s, saying they have solved a piece of a tragic mystery that has inspired books, movies and a Netflix documentary.

A stretch of land along Interstate 45 southeast of Houston was dubbed the “Texas Killing Fields" after the bodies of more than 30 women were found there. Investigators believe multiple perpetrators may be responsible for the deaths of mainly girls and young women.

A Galveston grand jury has indicted 61-year-old James Dolphs Elmore Jr. for his alleged role in the deaths of 16-year-old Laura Miller and 30-year-old Audrey Cook, whose bodies were found in the infamous area in 1986, Galveston County District Attorney Kenneth Cusick said Wednesday.

Court and jail records did not list an attorney who could speak on behalf of Elmore, who was arrested Tuesday and is being held without bond in the Galveston County Jail.

Miller and Cook were two of four young women whose bodies were found between 1984 and 1991 in a rural field off a desolate dirt road in League City, located about 28 miles (45 kilometers) southeast of Houston. The other two women were 25-year-old Heidi Fye-Villareal and 34-year-old Donna Prudhomme.

Cusick said after being appointed as district attorney in October that he would to take a harder look at these cases.

“Due to the concerted efforts of the law enforcement agencies in this county, this 40-year cycle of violence by these defendants against women, we’re trying to make headway on it, and I think we made significant headway yesterday in getting a charge against Mr. Elmore and having him arrested," he said.

Elmore has been charged with manslaughter and felony tampering with evidence in the death of Miller and with tampering with evidence in Cook’s killing.

Cusick said prosecutors had also presented evidence to a grand jury seeking indictments against Clyde Hedrick, who authorities allege was the person responsible for the deaths of the four women and had been Elmore's longtime friend.

But the 72-year-old Hedrick died by suicide last month before the grand jury came back with a decision in his case, Cusick said.

Hedrick was convicted of manslaughter in 2014 in the death of Ellen Beason, a young woman whose body was found in 1985 after going missing the previous years. He was released in 2022 and was still on parole at the time of his death, according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

Relatives of the victims on Wednesday said they were relieved an arrest had been made but expressed frustration it had taken so long.

“I think with everything that they had in the past, it’s inexcusable that Clyde Hedrick had the opportunity to die without never been indicted, convicted," said Tim Miller, the father of Laura Miller. After his daughter's death, Miller founded Texas EquuSearch, a nonprofit that helps look for missing people.

Miller said that in the last four years, he had met 30 times with Elmore who had shared information but he declined to elaborate on what Elmore told him because he didn't want to jeopardize the case against him.

Nina Jager, Fye-Villareal’s niece, celebrated Elmore's indictment but said it was also “bittersweet” because her grandfather had investigated the case and long believed Hedrick was responsible but his efforts were ignored by authorities.

“Maybe today is a result of all the work that he put in, all the searching the fields, going and talking to people and doing his own investigation because he just didn’t feel supported,” she said.

Cusick said he's committed to continue working on these cases and that there are active leads that can be pursued "to bring to justice some people who may have escaped justice thus far,” he said.

Most of the deaths associated with the “Texas Killing Fields” remain unsolved.

In 2022, William Reece, an Oklahoma death row inmate, pleaded guilty to three murders in Texas, including those of 12-year-old Laura Smither and 17-year-old Jessica Cain in Galveston County, and 20-year-old Kelli Cox, who was from Denton in North Texas but whose body was found hundreds of miles away in Brazoria County, located next to Galveston County. He received life sentences for all three murders.

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This photo provided by the Galveston County Sheriff's Office shows James Dolphs Elmore Jr. (Galveston County Sheriff's Office via AP)