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The 12-year-old Oklahoma girl who stabbed her little brother to death while they watched TV at home grew up surrounded by felons, drug addicts and white supremacists.
DailyMail.com can reveal that the girl's mother, father and stepfather have had their share of troubles with drugs and several run-ins with the law.
The father of the girl is a convicted felon who is currently in jail and has ties to the white supremacist gang Universal Aryan Brotherhood, DailyMail.com can reveal.
Her stepfather was arrested in 2017 for torturing a cat to death and her mother April Mitchell battled drug addiction, shooting up several times a day, until she learned she was pregnant with the now suspected brother killer.
April Mitchell is the mother of the 12-year-old girl who stabbed her brother to death. For nearly a year in her late teens, Mitchell says she was a hardcore addict to 'all kinds of drugs,' mostly opioids and methamphetamine that she shot up in her arms several times a day alongside the girl's father
The girl's father Dustin James Cunningham, 38, is a convicted felon who is currently in jail and has ties to the white supremacist gang Universal Aryan Brotherhood, DailyMail.com can reveal
The girl's stepfather Levi Lyda, 39, was arrested in 2017 - when Zander was four and the girl was six - for torturing a cat to death. The cat belonged to his other daughter
DailyMail.com has chosen not to publish the name of the girl because of her age and nature of her crime.
Tulsa County court and Oklahoma state child support records show Dustin James Cunningham, 38, fathered the girl in 2010 with April Mitchell, 34, who said she moved in with him when she was 18 and shared his addiction to methamphetamine.
The girl's father Cunningham is a hardened criminal currently behind bars in a Tulsa County jail. Oklahoma state prison records contain 16 different mugshots of Cunningham
Cunningham, according to prison records, is a hardened criminal currently behind bars in a Tulsa County jail.
Police reports show he allegedly took deputies with the local sheriff's office on a car chase in April when they tried to pull him over for a 'defective taillight,' according to the arrest report.
Shortly after midnight on April 18, the arrest report reads, Cunningham refused to stop his pickup truck when a deputy flashed his red-and-blue lights and sped up.
The chase, according to the report, continued at 'speeds well above the posted limit through a residential neighborhood,' including in someone's yard.
Cunningham crashed into a guard rail, jumped out of the truck and started running. He was apprehended a block away.
In the truck, deputies found crystal meth in a pill bottle, a loaded syringe, and a clear bag with a 'powdery substance.'
He was charged with endangering others while eluding police, possession of a controlled substance and driving without a license.
Cunningham told deputies he tried to flee because he is on probation.
Oklahoma state prison records contain 16 different mugshots of Cunningham and show he has spent at least six years on-and-off in prisons since January 2014 on charges that varied from drug trafficking to possession of a firearm while committing a felony, to burglary.
Prison, says April Mitchell, is likely where Cunningham built ties to
