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   From: daily.mexican@gazette.com   
      
   SANTA CRUZ, CALIF.   
      
   A 15-year-old boy charged with murder, kidnapping and rape in   
   the death of an 8-year-old girl in an artists' complex in a   
   California beach town is scheduled to appear in court.   
      
   Police say Adrian Jerry Gonzalez lured Madyson Middleton into   
   his family's apartment from a courtyard where she had been   
   riding her scooter over the weekend. Once inside, he tied her   
   up, sexually assaulted and killed her, according a charging   
   document.   
      
   Neighbors look at the growing memorial of flowers, stuffed   
   animals and notes left in memory of Madyson Middleton in Santa   
   Cruz, Calif., Wednesday, July 29, 2015. The close-knit community   
   of artists in Northern California are grieving the death of the   
   8-year-old girl whose body was found in a trash bin at their   
   housing complex and expressed shock that one of their own, a   
   teenage boy, has been arrested in her death.   
      
   Gonzalez is expected to be arraigned Thursday in a Santa Cruz   
   court.   
      
   Gonzalez remains in custody at the Santa Cruz County juvenile   
   detention center, where he has been held since the girl's body   
   was found in a recycling bin Monday evening.   
      
   "Unfortunately, the search for Maddy ended in the worst way   
   possible," Santa Cruz District Attorney Jeffrey Rosell said.   
      
   He said Gonzalez has been charged as an adult and added that in   
   his two decades in Santa Cruz, he's never seen a 15-year-old   
   charged with murder.   
      
   The charges could send Gonzalez to prison for the rest of his   
   life.   
      
   Larry Biggam of the Santa Cruz public defender's office said he   
   expects to be appointed as the teen's lawyer at the arraignment   
   Thursday, but he declined to comment on the case.   
      
   Authorities haven't been able to establish a motive in the   
   killing. "People do things for lots of reasons, sometimes we   
   understand it, sometimes we don't," Rosell said.   
      
   Neighbors at the Tannery Arts Center where both the suspect and   
   Madyson lived said they were stunned by the death. The center is   
   a public-private nonprofit that includes 100 affordable loft   
   apartments for artists and their families. About 250 people live   
   in the complex, including about 50 children.   
      
   "It's a great community because it's a bit unusual," Geoffrey   
   Nelson, a photographer and Tannery resident, said. "You share   
   the joys of people, their children growing up. Their art shows,   
   their recitals. But you also share the sorrows."   
      
   Nelson said he's known Gonzalez for several years and described   
   him as shy, though they often chatted. "He was a yo-yo-expert,   
   so he was oftentimes showing you tricks," Nelson said.   
      
   Residents have been heartbroken to learn that he is suspected in   
   the death, he said.   
      
   "It wasn't somebody from the outside," Nelson said. "It was   
   somebody we all knew. It was someone we all knew and liked."   
      
   Setorro Garcia, a Tannery resident who knew both the victim and   
   suspect, said Gonzalez had been curious about the investigation.   
      
   "He kept asking, 'Any updates?'" Garcia said.   
      
   Another resident, Kirby Scudder, described Madyson as a typical   
   8-year-old, alternately shy and gregarious.   
      
   "She was very smart, and I thought she was going to be an   
   engineer," he said. "She had a great sense of humor."   
      
   Madyson was headed for fourth grade in the fall.   
      
   She had a little, black dog named "Lucy" and tearful children at   
   the Tannery Wednesday placed pictures and notes on a growing   
   memorial overflowing with bouquets, stuffed animals, balloons   
   and candles.   
      
   "It was nice how you were so perky," wrote one.   
      
   "We all miss you," wrote another, next to a picture of the slain   
   girl with wings and a halo.   
      
   http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/article29517670.html   
      
        
      
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