Teen sentenced in fatal stabbing of rival cheerleader

Kayla Inexperienced, a 16-year-old cheerleader, was fatally stabbed with a knife by a 15-year-old rival cheerleader in April 2022.(Supply: Laverne Gordon, WCBS through CNN)

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (WCBS) - A New York teenager will spend a number of years in jail after pleading responsible to the stabbing demise of a rival cheerleader.

Emotional moments got here Tuesday as a decide sentenced a 15-year-old cheerleader to 3 to 9 years behind bars. The teenager woman pleaded responsible to the stabbing demise of 16-year-old Kayla Inexperienced, the member of a rival cheerleading squad in Mount Vernon, New York.

Inexperienced’s mom, Laverne Gordon, spoke in courtroom and after concerning the ache she is going to without end really feel at shedding her promising daughter.

Kayla Inexperienced, a 16-year-old cheerleader, was fatally stabbed with a knife by a 15-year-old rival cheerleader in April 2022.(Supply: Laverne Gordon, WCBS through CNN)

“Her killer will get to get out in three years to dwell her life, have household, have a profession. My daughter won't ever see that,” Gordon stated.

Inexperienced was attacked after a rally held by Mount Vernon to have fun a basketball championship in April 2022. The attacker was a 15-year-old armed with a knife that she had proven off on social media earlier on April 8.

The motive is tough to grasp.

“An extended-standing rivalry between two cheerleading squads within the metropolis of Mount Vernon,” stated Westchester County Choose Susan Cacace.

Cacace says the defendant, who shouldn't be being named attributable to her age, had a historical past of violent conduct.

Prosecutors say there’s no strategy to really perceive what set her on her lethal path.

“This was an intentional, mindless and cruel, intentional crime, which has triggered immeasurable ache,” prosecutor James Bavero stated.

The 15-year-old expressed regret in courtroom, studying a press release by way of tears.

“I consider all of the completely different decisions I may have made that day that might have left Kayla alive and saved her household this heartache. However that's the reason everyone seems to be right here immediately as a result of I made dangerous decisions,” learn the assertion partially.

The decide pointed to a hopeful signal, saying the 15-year-old has been thriving in detention, and he or she hopes the teenager is on a path to make one thing of her life.