Siblings should love one another, but in South Carolina a 4-year old girl was found dead in a plastic bin after being killed by her older brother.
Joanna Lockaby was reported missing from her home in Hester at about 2:20 p.m., prompting police to start a search of the area around her home.
Greenville County Sheriff’s Office released a statement, “After deputies arrived on the scene, they initiated a search and located the victim at around 2:45 P.M. Deputies located the victim’s body in a plastic bin in the woods, behind the home the victim lived in along with the suspect, 17-year-old William Micah Hester, her half-brother.”
Joanna was pronounced dead at the scene and investigators firmly believe she suffocated. They affirm that evidence points to Hester killing his sister.
“In addition to one charge of murder, Hester has been charged with kidnapping “due to the suspect’s act of unlawfully seizing and confining the victim in a container, preventing her escape,” the statement alleges.
Hester currently remains in the Greenville County Detention Center without bond.
“This case, including the motive for the killing, is still under investigation by the GCSO and the Greenville County Coroner’s Office,” the statement notes.
Hester’s father, William, spoke through tears at his son’s bond hearing on Wednesday.
“Micah would not do anything like this on purpose,” the dad is quoted as saying. “He wouldn’t … I know my boy, and I can hold my hand up to the Lord and testify that. He’s a good boy. He’s never been in trouble. He loved his sister.”
Joanna was the sister of Joe Avery James Lockaby, a 1-year-old boy who died in a hot car in June 2018. The baby boy was in his grandmother Janik Nix’s care at the time of his death. Nix, 68, pleaded guilty to homicide by child abuse and is currently out on parole.
Their baby son died in a hot car, the little girl was his step sister. Little ones in that home had no chance. No sir your son is NOT A GOOD BOY.