Mother’s Boyfriend Arrested in Killing of California Girl, 8

Mother’s Boyfriend Arrested in Killing of California Girl, 8
Dhante Jackson.Courtesy of Merced Police Department via AP
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MERCED, Calif.—After a months-long manhunt, police arrested a suspect in the death of an 8-year-old girl who had been reported missing before her body was found last March inside a central California home, authorities said Sunday.

Dhante Jackson was taken into custody Saturday in the San Francisco Bay Area city of Newark on suspicion of killing Sophia Mason, police and the California attorney general’s office said.