By OLIVIA BERGMEIER
Salina Post
Early Saturday morning, the Salina Police Department arrived at the 2100 block of Village Lane at 2:23 a.m., where the parents of a 13-year-old girl reported that she attempted to murder them while sleeping.
According to SPD Sergeant Kyle Tonniges, the parents recorded the incident through a surveillance camera stationed in their room.
"The surveillance camera shows the 13-year-old coming into the room with a pillow and a knife, a large butcher knife," Tonniges said.
The 13-year-old then attempted to smother her father with the pillow — as he woke up from the incident, she ran into the closet to hide before returning to try again.
The father woke up during the second attempt by the teen and realized his daughter's intent, so he reviewed the video footage from their room.
"She admits that she had gone into this room with the intent of killing both her mother and father, so we arrested her for attempted first-degree murder," Tonniges said.
SPD arrested the 13-year-old for two counts of attempted first-degree murder. Tonniges said the department transported the 13-year-old to the juvenile detention center in Junction City.