Negro arrest made in the murder of 7-year-old Ga. girl

[The Noble Negro]

http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/07/9277415-arrest-made-
in-the-murder-of-7-year-old-ga-girl

A 20-year-old maintenance worker has been arrested in the
beating death of a 7-year-old north Georgia girl who was
abducted and killed at an apartment complex and her body left in
a trash bin, authorities said Wednesday.

Ryan Brunn, who lived and worked at the apartment complex, was
taken into custody Wednesday afternoon on a murder warrant, said
Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Vernon Keenan.

Jorelys Rivera was last seen Friday evening leaving the
playground to walk back home to get drinks for her friends. Her
body was found three days later.

Keenan said Brunn, who has no known criminal record, had keys to
both the empty apartment and the trash compactor bin where
Rivera's body was placed.

"We are confident that Brunn is the killer and that is why he is
in custody," Keenan said, declining to detail what evidence
investigators have against him.

It was not immediately known whether Brunn had an attorney. He
was being held at the Cherokee County jail.

Brunn is not a registered sex offender in Georgia, according to
state records online.

Earlier, Keenan had called the killing "very calculated and
planned."

Autopsy results showed the girl died of blows to the head and
was stabbed and sexually assaulted before her body was placed in
a trash bin at the complex, about 40 miles north of Atlanta.

When Rivera's body was found three days after she disappeared,
the community where neighbors say they all know each other was
shaken and a makeshift memorial took root at the playground.

Investigators said they received numerous tips from the public
and that valuable evidence had come from apartment complex
residents. They also interviewed several sex offenders living at
the complex, Keenan said. On Tuesday he said officials had no
reason to believe those sex offenders were involved.

As details of the crime emerged, residents said they were
worried.

"I'm very concerned," Drew Baucom, 17, said soon after the
killing. "It makes me feel like my home life is violated, that I
can't trust somebody walking around that you think you may know,
but you really don't. It just worries me that something else
will happen like this."

About 65 local, state and federal investigators worked the case
and several hundred interviews were conducted, authorities said.

Jeremy Gibson, 24-year-old resident of the apartment community,
said before the arrest that he was concerned about the safety of
all the children who live there.

"Every day children play out here," he said. "It's starting to
become a dangerous place for them. If it's happened to one
little girl already, it could happen to someone else. I hope
they catch whoever did it soon."