Audrii Cunningham: Police find body of missing 11-year-old Texas girl - BBC News

Police plan to charge a 42-year-old man with murder for Audrii Cunningham's death.

14 hours agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, Texas Department of Public Safety via CBS Image caption, Audrii Cunningham, 11, was reported missing on 15 FebruaryBy Bernd Debusmann JrBBC News, WashingtonPolice have found the body of an 11-year-old Texas girl who went missing last week and are poised to file murder charges against a family friend.

Police in Polk County said Audrii Cunningham's body had been recovered by divers in a river north of Houston.

She vanished after failing to get on her school bus on 15 February.

A suspect in the case, 42-year-old Don Steven McDougal, who sometimes took Audrii to school, is already in custody on an unrelated assault charge.

Authorities are currently preparing an arrest warrant for Mr McDougal for capital murder in Audrii's death, Polk County District Attorney Shelly Sitton said at a news conference on Tuesday.

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