A SIX-year-old boy was fatally shot in the eye and head by a thief who found him sleeping the back of his mum's car.
Kingston Frazier was brutally killed by Byron McBride, then 19, who stole the vehicle accompanied by two other teens in May 2017.
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Mum Ebonie Archie left her car unlocked because she saw multiples police officers outside a store in Jackson, Mississippi.
From there she raced in to get items for her son's kindergarten graduation, the Clarion Ledger reported.
But soon after three teenagers pulled-up in a silver Honda Civic before one hopped into her Toyota Camry and drove away.
ABANDONED IN A MUDDY DITCH
The car was eventually found 14 miles north in Gluckstadt in a muddy ditch about nine hours after the initial disappearance.
In that time, child-abduction alerts had been repeatedly played on TV along with public appeals from the police and family members.
Upon finding the vehicle, the gruesome circumstances of Kingston death were discovered.
Later, the three teens - McBride, D'Allen Washington and Dwan Wakefield - would all be charged.
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McBride would be convicted of the boy's murder after he admitted that he shot the child and was sentenced to life in prison.
Washington was sentenced to 15 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to being an accessory to the kidnapping.
Other charges were dropped as part of a deal that saw him testify against McBride and Wakefield.
THE FINAL TRIAL
On Thursday, the final teenager Wakefield was found guilty of being an accessory to murder, kidnapping and motor vehicle theft.
A jury convicted the now 20-year-old of four counts in less than four hours.
He could face up to 45 years in prison when he is sentenced on December 16.
'DROP THE CHILD'
During the trial, Wakefield recalled a phone call with McBride where he told him to "drop the child".
He hoped the teen would leave Kingston at a convenience store or another public location.
But instead, McBride shot the child four times - in his right eye, at the back of his head and in both arms
The Sun previously reported how the parents of Kingston were not informed about the death of their son until a police press conference.
Where’s my son? I ain’t heard sh*t about my son all day. And I know he ain’t right.
Kingston's father in May 2017
Distressing footage from WAPT showed the heartbreaking moment the boy's dad yelled at officers in a desperate plea for answers.
He shouted: "Where’s my son? I ain’t heard sh*t about my son all day. And I know he ain’t right."
A policeman approached him, after which he walked off and is heard as he cried: "My son is dead, man."
Screams and cries were heard in the background as Kingston's dad shouted: "They killed my son, they killed him, they shot him, they shot him."
In a two-hour audio recording, agents from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation could be heard pleading with Wakefield to come clean.
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The child's grandmother Lynn Winston told WREG3: "It's clear that (Wakefield) knew Kingston was in the car.
"To think that someone could be that terrible to a child, it's just unbelievable."
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