Kali Bookey. Facebook/Kali Bookey
Fourteen-year-old Kali J. Bookey was charged as an adult for seriously injuring another teenager because she wanted her “first kill” and claimed she was a “psychopath,” a criminal complaint said.
The girl she allegedly attacked was seriously injured but didn’t die, police said, according to The Eau Claire Leader Telegram. The bizarre incident occurred in the rural town of New Richmond, Wisconsin. The St. Paul Pioneer Press said the victim was “assaulted for hours,” according to the criminal complaint. Read the criminal complaint here:
Bookey Criminal Complaint by Jessica McBride on Scribd
Bookey was charged in a criminal complaint and faces a preliminary hearing in August, said the northwestern Wisconsin newspaper. Bookey was charged with attempted first-degree attempted homicide.
Here’s what you need to know:
1. Bookey Said She Was a ‘Psychopath’ & ‘Crazy,’ The Complaint Alleges
Kali Bookey. Facebook/Kali Bookey.
According to The Leader Telegram, Bookey claimed she was a “psychopath” who would probably kill again, authorities say. She said she “was a psychopath and crazy and that (the victim) was her first kill and she was probably going to kill again,” said The Leader Telegram, quoting the complaint. The criminal complaint says the victim told police that Bookey told her she had been riding bike past the victim’s house to see when people were home.
However, the victim, a 15-year-old girl who was someone Bookey knew, did not die. According to The New Richmond News, police claim that Bookey rode her bicycle 11 miles before slipping into the victim’s home to attack her.
People were posting negative comments on Bookey’s Facebook page after the news broke, and some posted a graphic photo that they said was the victim in her hospital bed. One woman, who identified herself as a friend of the family, but who did not want to be named, told Heavy she thought online criticism of Bookey’s family was unfair: “They are a good family. They love their kids. They’re still married. They know what their kids are doing and who their friends are. Our sons have been friends for years.”
She said that Kali’s mother “teaches zumba in town at the Centre and snap. I take her classes mon and weds at the Centre. She’s positive, full of energy. She is heart broken over this. And they DID NOT see it coming…. People are blasting their parenting. They are wrong.”
2. Bookey Is Accused Of Cutting The Victim With Shards From Bowls & Allegedly Told Police She Hated the Victim
Kali Bookey. Facebook/Kali Bookey
According to The New Richmond Times, the victim told police that Bookey smashed two bowls over her head and then used “broken shards from the bowls to cut the girl,” according to the criminal complaint.
“Bookey admitted to jumping on the girl and landing 20-30 blows before smashing bowls over the victim’s head,” said The St. Paul Pioneer Press.
Bookey told police she dressed like a boy and snuck out of the house to ride bike, the criminal complaint alleged. She had injuries to her hand and leg. She also told police that she hated the victim, who was her brother’s girlfriend, because the victim made her brother happier than she did, the complaint said. She also said she was hoping to scare the girl so she would move away and her brother would come back to the family, the complaint said. She told police she stood in the victim’s livingroom for 10 minutes as her anxiety elevated before going into the bedroom, according to the criminal complaint. She said she was wearing blue rubber gloves, the complaint alleged. She admitted punching the victim 20-30 times with a closed first, the complaint said.
3. She Made Up An Abduction Story To Cover Up The Crime, The Complaint Says
Kali Bookey. Facebook/Kali Bookey.
Bookey called police to report an attempted abduction and told St. Croix County sheriff’s deputies that she was attacked by two masked men armed with a knife while she was riding her bicycle, The Leader Telegram said, quoting the criminal complaint. She told deputies that she had told the attackers to go to a New Richmond home where a girl was home alone to get rid of them, the complaint said, according to The Leader Telegram.
The criminal complaint says Bookey told police to go to a local trailer park and, when they got ther,e they found the victim calling for help. When police went to that home, they found the victim lying on a bedroom floor, bleeding from her face and neck, but she told them that Bookey was her assailant, not masked strangers, the criminal complaint said, according to the Eau Claire newspaper. According to the complaint, Bookey’s dad told police that Bookey called him and said two men had attacked her with a knife.
Kali’s Facebook page says she is originally from St. Paul, Minnesota and is in middle school. One woman wrote on Facebook, “I ask that everyone keep in mind that two of these kids are … very young. The Bookey family is a good family and I am just heartbroken for all of them, especially their mom… Please be kind with your comments. There are many people including kids saying really mean stuff. Let’s just support them right now.”
She said she made up the masked man story so the victim wouldn’t die and Bookey could explain her injuries, the complaint said.
4. The Wisconsin Teen Tried To Suffocate The Victim & Asked Her if She Wanted to ‘Die Right Now,’ The Complaint Said
Kali Bookey posted this meme/photo on Facebook. Kali Bookey/Facebook
A sheriff’s official said the victim’s injuries were serious enough to potentially be fatal if she had not been found in time, said The New Richmond Times.
The newspaper said the victim awoke to someone putting “their hands over her mouth.” There was a struggle in which the victim almost passed out as Bookey started “beating the girl in the face,” the criminal complaint alleged, according to The Richmond Times. The criminal complaint says the victim told police that Bookey “tried to cover her nose and mouth to suffocate her.” However, Bookey told police that she didn’t want the victim to die but to pass out, said the complaint.
When the victim asked Bookey for water, Bookey “replied that if she got some water, in return, she would get to cut (the victim’s) throat,” The New Richmond Times said, quoting the criminal complaint, which the newspaper says also alleges that Bookey asked the victim whether she wanted to “die right now” or “bleed out.” The victim then said she wanted to bleed out, said the criminal complaint.
On Facebook, Bookey recently wrote about traveling to Massachusetts to tour sites relating to the Salem witch trials: “Another extraordinary day in Massachusetts. (House of the seven gables, Salem witch dungeon, lunch at Red’s Sandwich Shop, Salem Witch Museum, Harvard University, dinner at Bertucci’s, haunted Boston ghost tour.)” She listed the Japanese anime fantasy movie, “Spirited Away,” as one of her favorites; its Facebook page describes the film as being about “a sullen ten-year-old girl who, while moving to a new neighborhood, enters the spirit world.” Another of her favorites: American Horror Story.
5. The Bizarre Case Comes On The Heels of The Notorious Wisconsin ‘Slender Man’ Case
State appeals court: Girls accused in #SlendermanStabbing case should be tried as adults
In the Slender Man case, which occurred in southeastern Wisconsin in Waukesha County, two Wisconsin teenagers were charged with attempting to kill their friend for Slender Man, an internet character, said New York Magazine. The victim survived.
A state appeals court ruled that the girls should be tried as adults, despite their young age. Anissa Weier and Morgan Geyser were 12 when they allegedly lured a friend into the woods and stabbed her, Fox News said. A documentary on the Slender Man case will run on HBO.