FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A North Texas teenager accused of sexually assaulting and suffocating a 6-year-old girl whose naked body was found wrapped in a tarp on a residential street last summer was sentenced Thursday to life in prison after pleading guilty.

Tarrant County prosecutors said Tyler Lane Holder, 18, of Saginaw, pleaded guilty to three separate charges: murder in the death of his neighbor, Alanna Gallagher; arson for setting the girl’s home on fire almost three weeks after her body was found; and attempted capital murder for shooting a police officer as he was being arrested in the girl’s death.

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