A 13-year-old boy from a New Orleans suburb was charged with second-degree murder in the death of his 5-year-old half-sister after investigators said he told them he repeatedly struck her with wrestling moves imitated from TV. 
 
 "The 13-year-old reported he started to wrestle with the victim and practiced `WWE' style wrestling moves on the 5-year-old," Col. John Fortunato of the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office said in a news release Tuesday. 
 
 Those moves allegedly included repeatedly slamming the girl on a bed, punching her in the stomach, jumping on her and striking her with his elbow. A coroner's investigation found the girl died of multiple injuries, including broken ribs, lacerations of the liver and internal bleeding. 
 
 In a statement released Tuesday, WWE offered condolences to the victim's family but cautioned against attributing the death to its industry. 
 
 "Authorities have already charged the accused with second-degree murder and determined that this was not an accidental death due to a wrestling move," the organization said. 
 
 "As in similar cases, criminal intent to harm and a lack of parental supervision have been the factors resulting in a tragic death." 
 
 The boy had been left to babysit the girl by his stepmother when the alleged beating occurred, authorities said. After the beating, the girl later complained of a stomach ache. When she stopped breathing, the boy called the emergency dispatcher. Emergency responders could not revive her and she was pronounced dead at a hospital. 
 
 The boy was taken to a juvenile facility and booked on a second-degree murder arrest warrant after he was interviewed by homicide Detective Matt Vasquez. 
 
 Authorities released the name of the suspect but The Associated Press generally doesn't identify juveniles charged with crimes. 
 
 The detective said the boy told him that he knew the wrestling moves on TV were fake, but he was smiling and appeared to enjoy talking about them. 
 
 "The 13-year-old continued by saying the victim complained that she was hurting, but he continued to slam, punch and elbow her for an additional two or three minutes, stopping when his mother called him on the phone to check on he and the victim," sheriff's officials said in the news release. ||||| The Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office has arrested a 13-year-old Terrytown boy and booked him with the murder of his 5-year-old sister. Devalon Armstrong inflicted several injuries upon the girl -- including broken ribs, internal bleeding and a lacerated liver -- while performing wrestling moves, according to Col. John Fortunato, spokesman for the Sheriff's Office. 
 
 The injuries occurred Sunday at a Terrytown apartment in the 700 block of Carrollwood Village, Fortunato said. The Sheriff's Office received a 911 call reporting that 5-year-old Viloude Louis had been found unconscious, lying on the bathroom floor. She was taken to Ochsner Medical Center's West Bank campus in unincorporated Gretna where she was pronounced dead a short time later, Fortunato said. 
 
 During a follow-up investigation, homicide Detective Matt Vasquez spoke with Adlourdes Desvallons, 39, the girl's mother, and learned that Devalon, Viloude's half-brother, was babysitting the child while Desvallons went to the store, Fortunato said. 
 
 Devalon told investigators Viloude had complained about a stomach ache and went upstairs to brush her teeth. When she didn't return after 30 minutes, he went to check on her and found her lying on the floor still complaining of the stomach ache, Fortunato said. 
 
 Devalon said he walked his sister downstairs and the girl laid down on the sofa. He told investigators he called 911 when he noticed she wasn't breathing a short time later, Fortunato said. The 911 dispatcher instructed Devalon to begin CPR. The children's mother arrived home after paramedics arrived. 
 
 The Jefferson Parish coroner's office on Sunday found no outward signs of injury, Fortunato said. Viloude had no obvious injuries other than a bruise on her elbow. 
 
 The coroner's office left her death unclassified. 
 
 Detective Vazquez interviewed Devalon and Desvallons on Monday. That's when Devalon revealed that he had been practicing "World Wrestling Entertainment"-style moves on his sister, Fortunato said. 
 
 The boy told the detective that he picked up his sister, slammed her on the bed and punched her in the stomach several times. He also practiced elbow drops, jumping on Viloude and hitting her with his elbow, Fortunato said. 
 
 The boy's sister told him that he was hurting her, but he continued to slam, punch and elbow her for at least two to three more minutes before he stopped to take a telephone call from their mother, Fortunato said. 
 
 Devalon told investigators he knew that television wrestling such as WWE is fake. But Vasquez noted he smiled and appeared to enjoy talking about the wrestling moves, Fortunato said. 
 
 The Sheriff's Office then classified Viloude's death as a homicide. An autopsy revealed she died of severe blunt force trauma, suffering broken ribs, liver lacerations and internal bleeding. 
 
 Vasquez obtained a warrant and took Devalon into custody. The 13-year-old was booked with second-degree murder and is being held at Rivarde Juvenile Detention Center in Harvey. 
 
 
 

– Police say a 13-year-old Louisiana boy decided to try out wrestling moves he saw on TV on his half-sister, and ended up killing the 5-year-old girl Sunday. Devalon Armstrong, who was babysitting sister Viloude Louis at the time, told Jefferson Parish police he was imitating WWE moves, and continued for two to three minutes even after she complained he was hurting her, an officer says. Devalon allegedly slammed Viloude onto the bed, jumped on her, punched her in the stomach, and practiced "elbow drops" on her. He has been charged with second-degree murder, the Times-Picayune reports. Devalon told police his sister complained her stomach hurt, then went to brush her teeth and didn't come back. He found her on the floor 30 minutes later and took her to lay on the couch, then called 911 a short time later when he saw she had stopped breathing. An autopsy found her death was caused by severe blunt force trauma, internal bleeding, and injuries including broken ribs and liver lacerations. In a statement, the WWE yesterday distanced itself from the incident, which occurred in the New Orleans suburb of Terrytown, the AP reports: "As in similar cases, criminal intent to harm and a lack of parental supervision have been the factors resulting in a tragic death."