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Zander Lyda sister, 12, stabs 9 year old brother to death but avoids jail as girl's mother, April Lyda defends daughter, blames medications. 

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'It’s so hard to know that she did this to him, my poor son.'

The stabbing earlier this year by an Oklahoma girl of her younger brother after restarting ADHD medication has prompted the question of whether the drug drove her to do it.

Levi Lyda, 39, was arrested in Missouri in August 2017 after he tortured and killed his daughters cat. Years later, his daughter was arrested after admitting to stabbing her younger brother.

The girl, who DailyMail.com is not naming, is now being treated in a childrens facility in Oklahoma. On January 5, she stabbed her nine-year-old brother, Zander, to death.

A 12-year-old girl in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was seen crying and pleading that she was sorry to arresting police officers after allegedly stabbing her 9-year-old brother to death.

Levi Lyda, 39, was arrested in Missouri in August 2017 after he tortured and killed his daughters cat. Years later, his daughter was arrested after admitting to stabbing her younger brother.

DailyMail.com is not naming the child. On January 5, she stabbed her brother, Zander Lyda, three times in their home in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Police bodycam footage captured the horrifying moments after a 12-year-old girl allegedly stabbed her nine-year-old brother to death in their Oklahoma home.