A transgender teenager from Pennsylvania has admitted to killing his 12-year-old friend while they were watching Netflix and then posting photos of the child’s body on Instagram.
Joshua Cooper, 18, who wants to be called as “Ash Cooper”, pleaded guilty on Thursday to charges including third-degree murder, possession of an instrument of crime and tampering with or fabricating physical evidence in the death of Morgan Connors, Fox News reported.
The two were watching Netflix on Nov. 25, 2022, at a trailer park in Bensalem Township when Morgan got up to use the bathroom and the white tranny decided to clean and organize his father’s gun safe, according to court documents obtained by the Bucks County Courier Times.
It is unclear what happened next, but police would later receive a call from the mother of one of the tranny’s acquaintances, who said he saw Morgan’s body in a video call on Instagram.
“From the call, investigators learned that a juvenile witness was on an Instagram video chat with an acquaintance, later identified as Cooper, who claimed to have just killed someone,” the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office said in a statement.
“In that video chat, Cooper flipped the video image and showed the legs and feet of someone covered in blood.”
The tranny then asked the acquaintance to help clean up and dispose of the body, at which point, the teen told her mother.
When authorities arrived, they found the pale tranny “running out of the back of the trailer.”
In the bathroom, they found Morgan with her pants around her leg and dead from a gunshot wound, according to the Courier Times.
They also found towels drenched in blood, cleaning supplies and the strong odor of bleach emanating from the bathroom — suggesting the tranny tried to clean up the crime scene.
Upon his arrest, the tranny insisted, “It was an accident,” an affidavit says.
He never revealed the motive behind the killing, prosecutors said, but an affidavit states that he told police he had been in a sexual relationship with the victim, according to 6 ABC.
The tranny’s attorney also said in court he had a “difficult upbringing” and felt “significant remorse and sorrow.”
Common Pleas Judge Jeffrey Finley also expressed his concerns about Cooper’s “troubling history of conduct and treatment of other people” and the lack of any “real explanation for what happened.”
He sentenced Cooper Thursday to 15 to 40 years behind bars, followed by seven years of probation, and recommended that he be placed in a therapeutic community within the state prison system.
As a legal adult, the tranny is also required to undergo a psychological and psychiatric evaluation.
