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Cooper, 18, pleaded guilty Thursday to third-degree murder, possession of an instrument of crime, and tampering with or fabricating physical evidence, prosecutors said in a release.
Prosecutors said Cooper killed 12-year-old Morgan Connors and then video-called a friend asking for help "cleaning up the scene and disposing of the body."
Officers responding to Cooper's trailer home at Top of the Ridge Trailer Park spotted him running out of one of the trailers, and found an alleged attempt to clean up the crime scene around, Bensalem police have said.
Inside, detectives found the victim dead from a gunshot wound on the bathroom floor, according to the DA's Office.
Cooper was arrested after police set up a perimeter around the trailer park, authorities said.
During sentencing on Thursday, prosecutors read an impact statement from the victim’s grandfather who described his “intense pain and heartbreak."
“The human heart is not built for such heartbreak,” he wrote.
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