Calif. Teen Suspected of Killing Sister Over Laundry (BLOG)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtEXr1CLg2bykyYhAFjM7yUAlC-tZo7b4vrU3EQk3IVJM6e-Ka8cugIYn5eJPhFpE82e8UWr4XgnY7O4ZAQCVZYO9zAweT6x1TjDNgv0yMkyHz8b4lbO_zVn4WYz6oGtc9M2Kny_zxlGI/s1600/ABC_kgo_justice_toliver_blur_jt_140125_16x9_992.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtEXr1CLg2bykyYhAFjM7yUAlC-tZo7b4vrU3EQk3IVJM6e-Ka8cugIYn5eJPhFpE82e8UWr4XgnY7O4ZAQCVZYO9zAweT6x1TjDNgv0yMkyHz8b4lbO_zVn4WYz6oGtc9M2Kny_zxlGI/s1600/ABC_kgo_justice_toliver_blur_jt_140125_16x9_992.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">Oakland, Calif., police are searching for a 14-year-old boy in connection with the shooting death of his 17-year-old sister, which reportedly happened following an argument the pair had over how she did the laundry.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">The Oakland Police Department offered a reward of $10,000 for any information leading to the arrest of Mario Toliver Jr., who is suspected of fatally shooting his 17-year-old sister, Justice Toliver, on Thursday in their grandmother's apartment in Oakland's Chinatown neighborhood.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">Police told ABC News today that the teen was still at large and the investigation was continuing.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">"We have not recovered the firearm that was used in this homicide so that is a concern not only for law enforcement but for our community as well," police spokeswoman Johnna Watson told ABC station <a href="http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/east_bay&id=9407244" style="color: #2e538f; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="external">KGO-TV</a> in San Francisco.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">Shortly after noon on Thursday, security cameras caught Mario Toliver carrying a gun as he walked down the hallway of the apartment block's fifth floor where he and his sister lived with their grandmother, police said.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">Video then captured the 14-year-old fleeing through an emergency exit leading onto Franklin Street, theu said.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">Police have asked the family to appeal to Mario to turn himself in.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">"We love you; we're hurting just like you are hurting, please do the right thing," the siblings' grandmother, Wanda Brown, said.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">The boy has been described as having dark hair, brown eyes and is five feet, five inches tall, weighing 140 pounds.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">The siblings' cousin, Marianna Gaston, 22, told KGO-TV she was told the pair were arguing because Justice had reportedly bleached some of Mario's clothes, but thought it was a "joke" when she heard the boy had shot his sister, who leaves behind a 3-year-old daughter.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">"Why would he kill her over that?" Gaston asked. "Nothing makes sense. It doesn't add up."</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">Police are asking anyone with information about the crime to call the Oakland PD homicide division at (510) 238-3821.</div></div>

Calif. Teen Suspected of Killing Sister Over Laundry (BLOG)

Oakland, Calif., police are searching for a 14-year-old boy in connection with the shooting death of his 17-year-old sister, which reportedl...

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