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A Kansas man has been captured in the assault and killing of a 5-year-old young lady, specialists said Tuesday. Officials answered not long before 6 p.m. Monday to a clinical call at a Topeka service station and found a fire group endeavoring to save Zoey Felix, police said in a news discharge. She was raced to a clinic and later articulated dead. Specialists distinguished a 25-year-elderly person as a suspect and booked him into prison Tuesday morning on doubt of first-degree murder and assault.

Mickel Cherry, of Topeka, was captured and set up for the Shawnee Province Prison around 4:15 a.m., CBS subsidiary WIBW-television revealed. His bond is set at $2 million and no lawyer is recorded for him, said Timothy Phelps, representative overseer of the Shawnee Region Branch of Amendments. Booking records show that Cherry was recorded as destitute, WIBW announced. No proper charges were promptly documented, court records show. The news discharge said that the man was known to Zoey, yet police representative Rosie Nichols said she was unable to give extra subtleties on how. She likewise declined to deliver data on the young lady's reason for death.

Neighbors told WIBW that Felix carried on with an existence of precariousness. The house where she and her mom remained had no water or power and the young lady was once in a while ventured out from home alone, they told the station.

"Adoring young lady," neighbor Desiree Myles told the station. "Love the youngsters, every one of the children play with her. They generally paid special attention to everyone, paid special attention to Zoey. She was an Inquisitive George with no place to go. No place to go."