‘Monstrous and disturbing’: Teen girls allegedly bludgeon, stab and burn 13-year-old inside of vacant home

Inset: Victim Ka’Niyah Baker (Columbia Police Department/WLTX/YouTube). Background: The vacant home where Ka’Niyah Baker

Inset: Victim Ka’Niyah Baker (Columbia Police Department/WLTX/YouTube). Background: The vacant home where Ka’Niyah Baker’s body was found in a fire (WLTX/YouTube).

Two teenagers in South Carolina, ages 16 and 15, are facing murder charges for allegedly bludgeoning, stabbing and then burning a 13-year-old girl inside of a vacant house in what cops are calling a “gut-wrenching” killing that “shocks the conscious.”

“Brutal, heinous, vicious, gruesome, monstrous and disturbing. These are the words I’d use to describe this murder investigation,” said Columbia Police Chief William “Skip” Holbrook at a press conference Saturday.

Ka’Niyah Baker, the victim, was found dead in a “structure fire” at a vacant home on Cardamon Court in Columbia last Wednesday night, according to the Columbia Police Department. She had been reported missing on Jan. 12, with the last sighting of her being listed at a location roughly 20 miles away from where she was found.

“The manner of death was not an accident,” said Richland County Coroner Naida Rutherford at Saturday’s presser. “Ka’Niyah was bludgeoned, stabbed and burned.”

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